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Originally Posted by woj
I don't get it... accident happened and you turn it into a political issue? What does red/blue/regulation/non-regulation have to do with anything?
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well it can be pretty much a complicated issue. Basically it boils down to two schools of thought; the first one is a free enterprise should be allowed to conduct business without an exorbitant amount of constraints placed on it by the government. The second is that certain industries need to be heavily regulated and those regulations enforced to protect the greater good.
The first point of view basically views regulations as just an additional tax upon business thereby limiting their ability to profit. Personally I think regulations are good thing as long as they are applied intelligently and enforced rigorously. Stupid regulations are stupid. But there are a lot of good regulations that should be enforced with strong oversight by Congress.
In the two examples listed by the OP strict enforcement of existing regulations probably could have gone a long way towards preventing or limiting the damage is caused.
