OPINION: 'Does anyone really believe that government agencies that came into being on the backs of public health and safety disasters should just go away and leave it to the corporations and volunteer groups to protect the public?' writes SaddleBrooke…
Funny thing about government, no one wants government directly in their lives until something goes wrong and people are harmed or even die. Then people expect government to come to the rescue, but then blame government for not preventing the harm or for not acting fast enough.Regulation of corporate excesses and harms to the public is one of the responsibilities of responsible government. Regulations that assist people when disasters strike is another responsibility of responsible government.
One political party today campaigns hard against government agencies as the “socialistic” administrative state that has to be dismantled in the interest of protecting freedom from government control. “Deregulation” is a campaign slogan that gets some people elected. A spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board recently said that the train derailment in East Palestine that contaminated the community with a toxic chemical spill was 100% preventable.
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