Is government regulation bad? ?

Question

y'know...corporate responsibility? Or is "predatory" corporatism just going to 'kill it's host' like a parasite?

jobs overseas, oil,gas, rubber tires, home sales (forclosures - predeatory lending)

What fun the last 8 years have been!!

dude- where's our economy?

so do we really need SOME government to keep lead out of our products, make society a little more civilized?

Are police a form of regulation?

Will we not be more free, with some oversight?

Answer 1

This has been the republican mantra for the past 30 years.  Leave those fine corporations to police themselves!  

This gave us the Enron collapse and the extensive fraud of their accountants.  This has given merger after merge in the energy market resulting in higher prices each time.  This gave us the rolling blackouts in California which the power companies used to raise the rates.

It's been such a good idea that there aren't any food inspectors anymore either.  So when your child dies of salmonella or cholera, you can content yourself that it's all for the best because you don't ever want to over regulate.  Republican Lies will save you in the end - if you believe real hard!

Answer 2

Some government regulation is necessary.

However, who regulates the government?

Answer 3

A little bit of regulation is alright, but it should be kept as small as possible.

The reason China does the jobs we used to do is because of our regulation and minimum wage. It is killing our jobs.

BOB BARR 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

With freedom comes responsibility.  If everyone could be trusted to obey the law and not take advantage, deceive, or hurt anybody, then government regulation would not be necessary.  In the short run, government regulation may be seen as an irritant or a barrier.  But in the long run, government regulation is there for the well being of the people.  

Answer 5

I think most government regulation is bad, and that most is created automatically by the free market - the seller and buyer.

The governmet, is not the free market, the buyer, or the seller, therefore they are allready too far removed from the equation to be a valuable part in honest transactions.

Since government is not the free market, the buyer, or seller, they are merely 'teammates' for who can afford them. However, these are teammates paid for twice. Once with our taxmoney by force, and again by a team hiring them. Since they do not have to answer to us, then they only have to answer to that second payment maker - the corporations.

That predatory corporatism - is socialism, and Nazism (nationalist socialism), and is what rules the laws.

Lead in products would be removed by competition looking to grab market share from companies who use lead. It is a natural free market result of getting the best value - balance of quality and cost. Your product contains lead - public knows lead is bad - so I start a company that does not use lead and I win.

"Predatory Lending" is the result of government policy. Government wanted to brag about 'home ownership' so they put safety net under risky loans that banks would not have made given that socalist net was not there. The result - people got homes who should have never 'owned' but should have rented, driving up home rental prices removing rentals from the market, and driving down homes for sale.

Good intentions in regulation, rarely have valuable logical and worthwile results. Just thousands of more pages of law, bloading more the allready dead and bloating system.

We currently BARELY have a free market as government has taken over much of it and encapsulated it in regulation. There are walls of laws around oil drilling & refining, that literally protects big oil - banning competition, allowing prices to remain with no competition. People blame free market for gas prices - instead of blaming the government walls built around them!

*To the post below... If a food company sells food that kills people, do you suppose people will continue to buy that food? Is selling contaminated food a logical market choice for a company? You should not attempt to replace consumer knowlege with a massive government regulatory system that fathers the people and protects them from what it (and its funders) consider bad. Its like big pharma getting government to ban suppliments and herbs from alternative medecine stores because it cannot pass regulation - untill it can be put through multimillion dollar studies and be syccessfully synthesized by big pharma who then owns the rights to it.

My government regulation ideas stay that governmetn should regulate itself, and its growth. Once it can do that, then it can think about regulating a  few other things such as importation of exotic and endangered animals and so forth - but to be used very sparingly.

Answer 6

As far as governmnet regulation is concerned I would need you to ask me the question again and tell me exactly is you mostly have an issue with.