Who is fighting all of these regulations?

[mac]

Very funny:

[swchandler]

reinerehlers, maybe my last post was one that I should have deleted. Yet, in the end, I didn't. It was late.

To be frank, I didn't like being used in your earlier tiff with pueno, particularly since my post had nothing to do with it in my mind. Moreover, you already made your point in an earlier post that I responding to. Add in the capital letter thing, and you were really on your pedestal.

[KGB-NP]

swchandler,
Sorry I don't think I was using your comment in my "tiff" with Pueno. I thought I was explaining why it "is their" business. Also I don't see this as a "tiff" I see it as an exchange of opinion, experience, and reasoning. My experience is what I was sharing while on my "pedestal", which I don't see as a pedestal because I am not looking for anyone's approval to be honest. I am simply sharing what I have experienced much as if we were all sitting around having a conversation.

Pueno,
I can see the need for many of these regulations, but in the case of the small independent I don't see the need for them to carry WSIB on themselves if they only work for themselves. I can see them registering with WSIB and being required to carry personal disability though.
Perhaps the majority of the problem lies in the manner in which the service (if you could call it that) is being rendered. I wish my experience was an isolated incident but it is not the exception by any means. An example of that is recently my tile / flooring contractor's account on the E clearance showed "uneligible for clearance" though he had paid only 3 weeks prior (he showed me the payment receipt) he called and they had no record despite a cleared cheque at the bank. He ends up paying via Visa over the phone to get the clearance. Last week I go to print off his clearance certificate and once again showing "uneligible" . I'm like, "how?" and he has to call them againt to clear this up. Hours wasted due to incompetance!

[pueno]

[KGB-NP]

Thanks, so nice.
Did you take a look at that link regarding the $19 billion deficit.
Maybe one might also conclude that they're doing such a poor job at providing insurance that they are making others pick up the tab for their inability to provide insurance effectively. Do you hear of any other insurance companies losing money? I see that most insurance usually turn huge profits. If they were capable of that then maybe it could actually cover the educational and monitoring aspect of regulating worker's safety.

Maybe there should be a regulation for who is capable of running these programs profitably and effectively. Maybe they shouldn't implement such programs until they can do so in an accountable and cost efficient manner and act as if they are providing a service and not doing us a favour.

And please don't put words in my mouth about wanting to scrap all regulation. That's not what I said or implied at all. It is interesting that you can admit that some of the regulations are in fact oppressive.

[isobars]

[real-human]

[mac]

This could be posted in any number of places. The current Smithsonian has an article on Michael Skinner http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ideas-innovations/The-Toxins-That-Affected-Your-Great-Grandparents-Could-Be-In-Your-Genes-231152741.html#Skinner-ingenuity-birds-main-473.jpg that discusses epigenetics. Seems that he was testing the endocrine disruptor vinclozolin, an agricultural fungicide, and found that it did not affect sexual differentiation, which was the study thesis. But they did find that it affected the fourth generation--the grandchildren of those exposed. Turns out a number of such substances have that affect--including DDT, which leads to obesity in later generations.

I had been a pretty large skeptic of the precautionary principal in environmental regulation until I read this. Of course, since it suggests that genetic changes are possible, and might affect the fitness of individuals in the long run--that is, since it supports the idea of evolution, we can rest assured that many on the right will never hear of it. Those who get their news from Fox, a Murdoch paper, or an evangelical web-site, that is.

I thought that I had been assured, by a petroleum engineer with expertise in environmental chemistry, that DDT was perfectly safe and regulation was a plot against the third world. Imagine my surprise.

[KGB-NP]

FDA doing a good job at regulations? Aspartame anyone?

[pueno]