Malaclypse Muscaria
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.06.12 19:16:00 -
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Ila Dace wrote:Nah... Regulators have gone bananas with power under the current administration. FDA, FAA, EPA, IRS. Granted, many of the appointees to these bureaucracies came from the industries they are aimed at. Even so, this is a case of sufficiently advanced incompetence being indistinguishable from malice.
Edit: I'm sure there's a move to ban bananas afoot.
I've been to the US many times during my life - I'm still a US citizen - from the Reagan administration to the current one, and regardless of who is in power, there's always been a common theme every time I've been there: most Americans really seem to love laws and rules and regulations.
Not everyone of course. And perhaps, many US residents may not be fully aware of this, just as a fish may not be aware of the water it's been surrounded by its entire life. But when I'm in the US, no matter where I go, no matter what I do, it's rules rules and more rules, regarding even the most silly things. Don't do this. Don't do that. This is forbidden. You shall be prosecuted to the full extent of the law (a phrase I always found strangely amusing). etc, etc, etc...
No other country is like that. I've also lived in Germany, but as much as they also love their rules there, it doesn't reach the preposterous level it does in the US.
I've been carded when trying to buy at beer at 38 years of age, with full beard, and then being denied it after producing a legal foreign ID because "We don't know what this ID is". I've been shouted at for having the temerity of diving into public swimming pools, for playing squash without the mandatory goggles, I've been harassed by cops simply for crossing a completely empty street at night through the spot I wasn't supposed to ("Jaywalking" they call it, a term I haven't encountered anywhere else). The list of personal anecdotes in this regard just goes on and on and on...
I believe this cultural love for laws and regulation Americans have, also manifests itself in the endless stream of American TV shows having to do with courts, laws and enforcement, or the ridiculous lawsuit-happy culture that seems to permeate every aspect of modern life in the US.
I'm not a libertarian - usually they just come across to me as nutjobs unhinged from reality - and I do believe *some* rational regulation is necessary, but after the personal experience of being constantly bombarded by rules and regulations one way or another every time I was in the US, I can understand and empathize where the libertarians are coming from.
That being said, and as others have pointed, this particular case of trying to forbid how real cheese is being produced and eaten daily by the rest of the civilized world, does stink of corporate interests meddling with politics.
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