tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post6338950728401604065..comments2023-10-29T05:29:58.599-04:00Comments on Right-Side-of-Lowell: Back to OSHA and the Home Improvement BusinessUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post-23464193345844300512011-08-15T13:45:39.841-04:002011-08-15T13:45:39.841-04:00I would be for doing away with OSHA. However, the...I would be for doing away with OSHA. However, the function would have to be provided by the insurance companies.<br /><br />But that leads to mandatory insurance, at least for contractors working on other people's properties, and some method to ensure that coverage has been taken out. Each time we have a contractor do work for us can we be sure we are not going to be sued for his accidents?JoeShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12398638395224775006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post-17458643906719487552011-08-15T12:33:31.536-04:002011-08-15T12:33:31.536-04:00Definately something to consider. Well, except for...Definately something to consider. Well, except for the Nazi parallels.Jack Mitchellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post-63842963843723211342011-08-15T06:58:18.987-04:002011-08-15T06:58:18.987-04:00BRAVO!!!!!!
What an eminently professional and in...BRAVO!!!!!!<br /><br />What an eminently professional and informative piece of journalistic excellence. I would only add (for emphasis) a few comments.<br /><br />The first is, OSHA and EPA are only two of dozens of Federal bureaucracies hard at work promulgating new and more onerous regulations. This is what a "regulatory agency" does. What purpose does a regulatory agency serve if it doesn't provide regulations? Moreover, how on earth can it possibly grow and prosper unless it can create or find a whole host of violators that must be stamped out with great haste lest the public good be irreparably harmed. Many folks will scoff at that comment saying that there ARE bad people out there doing BAD things to the public and so...regulatory agencies are necessary. I would respond that it is true, however, unregulated regulatory bodies become the greater harm to the public than the threat they are constituted to protect us from (I know...horrible sentence construction). These "agencies" who promulgate intrusive policies range from the Dept of Education who mandate via state aid and national education policy (often using the AFTA and NEA as their defacto primary implementation and enforcement agent) binding policies requiring all sorts of restrictive rules. What the Feds miss the states fill in. For instance, softball, dodgeball, red rover, capture the flag, and a host of other recess games are forbidden in public schools in NY state. Too dangerous. USDA is about to launch into a veritable cascade of food regulations that will presume to know precisely what you SHOULD eat and prevent you from consuming things they adjudge to be bad for you....in spite of the fact that there is little empirical and settled science to back their assertions. The FDA purposely restricts the sale of many drug items in this country..items freely available without any horrible outcomes in other countries....and withdraw other drugs under the guise of not being efficacious (gee...why did they approve them to begin with?). Let's try to not even discuss the regulatory disaster that is the FAA....the child of another government disaster, the DOT.<br /><br />Yes, some of the things these agencies do good...and necessary.....things for the public but there are no upper limits. <br /><br />And now under the guise of public protection, we have genuine police agencies who are assuming intrusive capabilities that begin to rival those of police state agencies...such as the Stasi and the NKVD. The FBI can dig into your past and present life with complete abandon...just because they think there is something you are hiding.....and the DOJ position seems to be one of, well...that is why we have the court system..to sort it all out. And how many people have been put to death over the years...only to discover that they were telling the truth...people convicted by FBI testimony and "lab evidence?"<br /><br />Now we find that the BATFE is selling automatic weapons to known felons for redistribution to Mexican cartels.....so that they can see "where the weapons go." Huh???<br /><br />A government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take everything away from you...and you are powerless to prevent it....because they are THAT big.<br /><br />Finally, I would submit that by piling on onerous regulations and levying steep fines that are motivated by field agent bonuses, the really GOOD contractors will leave the field. They are excellent businesspeople...that is how they got good. And as a good business manager, they assess risk and make decisions accordingly. That is why many won't take on certain jobs..or if they do, price it accordingly. Risk will drive them out. The only ones left will be the scam artists..the ones who figure that they can beat the system...and many will....and the customer will pay.....always.<br /><br />In the end, Big Big Brother will drive down the quality of goods and services to the lowest possible level witness the downfall of the Soviet empire....the state was supreme.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post-30133129671505010182011-08-14T13:38:58.820-04:002011-08-14T13:38:58.820-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com