What Would We Do Without Regulators?

What would we do without regulators? Well, in another sphere, there is a matter of drug shortages. These haven't gone away. If you know a nurse or pharmacist, ask them about the matter.

And nearly all of these shortages are due to the US regulators.

Yeah well I have a lotta problems with such notions as that ammunition security thingy that popped up a while back....justified because the ammunition regs hadn't been changed in 30 years.

Using that logic...let's update that capital punishmnent matter..........

Life, the world, will never be safe enough for the regulators who use the fear of risk to micro manage every aspect of life on the planet - like they are constructing a vast counter plan to natural selection.

Suppose we follow their lead:

If you want to advance the cause of freedom through absence of regulation, it can't be done without the loss of regulators.

From a Monty Python movie - `but I`m not dead yet!`.

Laws and rules and regulations is what the bureacracy must have in abundance to continue in the theft of private property. In Canada we have over 500,000 PAGES of laws and rules and regulations. A stack of paper over 10 stories high. All shuffled by union paid civil servants. The perfect Velvet Gulag. They cover everything from it being illegal to have a carpenter build you a roof truss in Alberta without an engineer. Even tho I challenge anyone to find a case were a properly build roof fell in and killed anyone since Canada began. Makes a lot of work for engineers makes a lot of fees for the Municipal Comrades. Our little nearby town's biggest annual cost to Taxpayers is administration of the town to maintain the myraid of rules and regulations. All Municipalities are run by washed out retired teachers, all of whom are socialists, or lawyers etc. Even small towns have hundreds of rules and regulations to squeeze more money for the bureacracy to feast on. Get involved at the Municipal level that is how the socialists took over Canada.

Because you can't have too many crazed killers in a multi-culti society.

The comment is about air safety, but can be applied to pretty much every realm of regulation.

On the Dominion Day thread about "what does it mean to be Canadian" I wrote "taxed near unto death". This is of course what I'm talking about. Most of what Canadian government does is counter-productive these days, the part that isn't waste motion or outright theft anyway.

Unchecked, this ever-increasing spiral of regulation -will- eventually get us killed. Because sooner or later simply drawing breath is against regulations. Doubters please see "Liverpool Care Pathway".

Try Bing, Google is getting a little iffy these days. Close ties to the NSA and the White House, y'know.

Solution? TAX CUT. Stop feeding the machine and it grinds to a halt. Hopefully before we all get squashed.

-"That's great news for aviation companies and their passengers--and a complication for rule makers trying to improve flight safety."

Hrumph, Hrumph we've got to save our phoney baloney jobs!
Quick what did the 'March of Dimes people do?!

Every time we are regulated, we lose a little bit more of our freedom.

There are two kinds of societies:
one where anything not specifically forbidden is allowed;
and one where anything not specifically allowed is forbidden.
Guess which one we are becoming!

Hi, its right in the Canadian Criminal Code. Guilty of an act or an omission of an act...

regulator....isn't that the thing on my cutting torch????

"If anyone wants to advance safety through regulation, it can't be done without further loss of life."

Proof that bureaucrats have no foresight.

'Never let a crisis go to waste' etc. ad nauseum...

In Cooper vs. Hobart, from Oct. 2001, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that regulators cannot be held liable for their own omissions, neglect, laziness or malfeasance.

In St. Lawrence Cement, from 2008, the Court ruled that a company can be held responsible for polluting a town even if it adheres strictly to the regulations in place.

The combined effect of these two decisions is that in Canada, regulation is absolutely worthless and unnecessary.

nv35 said: "In St. Lawrence Cement, from 2008, the Court ruled that a company can be held responsible for polluting a town even if it adheres strictly to the regulations in place."

Didn't I read somewhere that companies between 100 and 500 employees are vanishing from the Canadian business scene in record numbers? I think I did.

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Could it be because small companies are too little to bother with, while big companies can handle the unending lawsuits etc. because they have "friends" in high places?

Naw. Couldn't be.