[PAA-Discuss] Ethics & regulatio

[Alyssa Burgin]

Well, that's easy. The whole problem with regulatory agencies right now is
that we have a group of leaders whose orientation is to a free market system
without regulation.

Translation: we have to put in office leaders who agree that the regulatory
system works. That's the only way we'll ever have any regulation.

The administration's lackeys brag about how little regulation they believe
is necessary--it's not a component of their belief system or their business
philosophy. And clearly, as seen by the invitations from, say, Dick Cheney
to oil and gas industry leaders to police their own industry, that doesn't
work. That's what corporatists believe in--let the industry write its own
rules.

Alyssa Burgin

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:38 PM, A. Artemis <a_artemis9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> So how do you answer to the many, many regulatory agencies which do NOT -
> do their very job?
>
> *Alyssa Burgin <aburgin4peace at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> . I have found, though, that the idea that we can expect, for example,
> that all individuals, or all corporations, will live up to some sort of
> moral or ethical responsibility, rather naive. I suppose I believed more in
> that concept when I was much younger, but it's certainly become
> clear----that it's everybody for themselves in a loose structure that does
> not regulate.
>
> Look at this society with regulation and without. The last eight years
> have brought us an utter confounding of what little regulation there was,
> and all of us have suffered as a result. The rich get richer, the poor get
> poorer, industry pollutes, the climate worsens, the natural tendency of
> corporatism to push for cheaper wages becomes the one drive that eclipses
> all.
>
> I'm a communitarian, and proud of it.
>
> Alyssa Burgin
>
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