From: rich@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Rich Schwartzman)
Subject: Re: voting for the enemy.
Organization: Sometimes
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:52:51 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.223252.29959@sco.com> erics@sco.COM (eric smith) writes:
}
}bill@cognet.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge) writes:
}
}>rbeckham@bnr.ca (Rick Beckham) writes:
}
}>>  You better open your eyes, the current system is ruled by special interests.
}>>  If you went to Wash with a pet peeve, on your own with no money backing
}>>  you, your congressperson would view you as a nuisance. This is the
}>>  result of the demopublicans running the country. Remember, lobbyists are
}>>  people who are seeking favors and advantages over their competitors.
}
}>Two questions:
}
}>  1) Has it ever been different?
}>  2) Do you think it ever will be?
}
}At least now we have some governmental protection in the form of regulation.
}For example, if a person feels discriminated against in hiring or firing,
}he or she can go to the EEOC.

Only if you are a member of a designated minority.

}The FAA assures certain safety standards for
}air travel.

Theses certain standards are minimum standards only.


}The EPA works to ensure that corporations aren't polluting
}our environment.

The EPA sets standards of acceptable pollution and fines violators.  The
fines are treated as a cost of doing business. The EPA also prevents those
who are wronged from taking action.  I lived in an apartment for two and a
half years that was found to be radioactive.  Those of us who lived there
cannot take legal action against the landlord because he knew nothing about
the problem but the EPA is suing him.

In another situation I'm aware of, a small petroleum products company paid to
have some waste barrels properly disposed of.  Several years later those
barrels were found in a field.  The EPA sued the petroleum products
company, not the disposal company.

}Et cetera. But hand the system over to Libertarians,
}and your only recourse if you've been wronged or injured (or your
}survivors' if you've been killed) will be to hire lawyers to pursue
}the other party. Give me a break. What chance would an average citizen
}have going against Dow Chemical? "Special interests"? This country is
}not "ruled by" special interests; this country IS special interests.
}Every one of us is a member of at least one special interest group.
}(And, by the way, I don't have to go to Washington to communicate with
}my congressperson. I've done it right here and I was not treated as a
}"nuisance". Maybe that's one reason Clinton picked him to be director
}of the OMB.)
}
}-----
}Eric Smith	    | "My friends, no matter how rough the road may be,
}erics@sco.com	    |	we can and we will, never, never surrender
}erics@infoserv.com  |	to what is right."
}CI$: 70262,3610	    |		- J. Danforth Quayle
} 

I'll take liberty over statism anytime.

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