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I agree. These guys would like to be charging us for the air we breathe, the water in our veins, and the sun on our backs when we should be charging them for polluting these things!
posted by
Able_Ergot
on December 29, 2003 at 6:40 AM
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Able_Ergot thanks for your comment
But as far as regulations go, one mans idea of "progress" - I find is often tied to his/her immediate self interest, whereas regulations are often designed to protect the long term interests and what we refer to as "the common good". In this administration, there is no such thing as "the common good".
posted by
Cynthia
on December 27, 2003 at 11:19 AM
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Wiley, thanks for the news from up North
but it does reveal the hypocrisy from the American beef industry, when we banned Canadian beef, when the original source of Canada's problem may have been found in an American feedlot. The Canadians may be cooperating because they are being more honest by recognizing there is a lot of back and forth transport/selling of cattle and feed along the border.
posted by
Cynthia
on December 27, 2003 at 11:11 AM
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great post!
It's good to see something that doesn't relate to the 'War on Terror.' Here's what I think is going on...Business, and the common people have legitimately complained about the welter of regulations that really can block progress, and I think the Republican congress is trying to address that. However in typical politician fashion, they lack an intellectual framework. Reading cyberetics and the science of control systems, one realizes that humans can combine (construct) concepts in any possible way, but that these combinations don't always reflect reality and hence are useless. There is a movement known as deconstructionism which, although I don't know enough about, appears to be the philosophical underpinning for deregulation, or deconstructing concepts that don't reflect reality. The thing is that essential laws that
do reflect reality (i.e. clean air laws) are being scuttled because of the lack of education of the lawmakers. Add to this is that the whole process is subservient to business interests, and this is what we get.
posted by
Able_Ergot
on December 27, 2003 at 8:11 AM
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Cynthia,
good blog, forgive me for saying this, but, Canada is not one of the coutries that has banned U.S. beef, YET! Also, it is my understanding that the case of Mad Cow we had in Canada was from an animal sent north by a U.S. farmer. Now, please understand, I am not being objectionable, I just have different facts, it's not a case of we're better than you are!!
Quote: " The Ottawa Sun, December 24/03. Canadian officials will wait 48 Hours, to confirm if the cow identified in Washington state truly had the wasting disease, federal sources said. "We will not close the border while this is(only) a possible positive case, a senior government source said late last night"
A single case of mad cow disease sent the Canadian cattle industry into crisis in 2003 as all major importing countries including the U.S.A closed their borders to Canadian beef, costing exporters alone $1.9billion.
posted by
WileyJohn
on December 26, 2003 at 7:37 PM
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