> At least in our "Free Market" system, > we thought to build containment structures.
Do you think that containment structures would have been built without Federal safety regulations? What would have happened in a truly free market would have been many companies cutting corners; maybe not containment structures per se, but less visible subsystems such as redundant cooling loops, control systems, and operating procedures.
The free marketers would say that having Three Mile Island blow up Chernobyl-style once every 50 years would be enough justification to not have containment structures.
> This is a ridiculous double standard, that needs
> to be remedied immediately. Either drop all import > tariffs or enforce tariffs on exported jobs.The
> government is by the people, of the people,
> and for the people, so let's start acting like it.
The problem with your argument is the assumption
that the US government is by/of/for the people. Once
you realize that this has not been the case for the past 20 years, then you will feel much better about bending over and taking it like a true Patriot.
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> At least in our "Free Market" system,
> we thought to build containment structures.
Do you think that containment structures would have been built without Federal safety regulations? What would have happened in a truly free market would have been many companies cutting corners; maybe not containment structures per se, but less visible subsystems such as redundant cooling loops, control systems, and operating procedures.
The free marketers would say that having Three Mile Island blow up Chernobyl-style once every 50 years would be enough justification to not have containment structures.
> This is a ridiculous double standard, that needs
> to be remedied immediately. Either drop all import
> tariffs or enforce tariffs on exported jobs.The
> government is by the people, of the people,
> and for the people, so let's start acting like it.
The problem with your argument is the assumption that the US government is by/of/for the people. Once you realize that this has not been the case for the past 20 years, then you will feel much better about bending over and taking it like a true Patriot.