Showing posts with label Just Another Example Of Why We Need Regulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Just Another Example Of Why We Need Regulation. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Just Another Example Of Why We Need Regulation

This is slightly more wonky than I usually get, but its worth noting and revisiting this for a second.
We’ve all forgotten about it by now, but last October there was a multi-state meningitis outbreak that killed several people. The outbreak happened because a steroid solution created by a medical compounding center had become infected and had then been distributed to patients in various states.
As this outbreak occurred, Fox News was running one of their campaigns attacking regulation. I wrote about it at the time for Media Matters.
Fox News has regularly attacked efforts at regulation by the federal government: Fox described the Environmental Protection Agency as “job terrorists” who are “strangling America;” cherry-picked data to make false claims about the cost of regulation; falsely claimed that government regulations were responsible for high unemployment; and even attacked laws regulating child labor and workplace safety.
Nobody likes arbitrary, stupid, government red tape. But at the same time we need rules and regulations and enforcement in order to keep society operating, especially one as big as ours.
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