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To: wastedyears

That’s partially do to regulations. Ominous out of OSHA and the EPA

The other thing to note is that this crooked administration waited until industries had closed and left before making a move to help. To restart a business is the same as initial start up.

I would rather see govt help go to that than the solar industry


10 posted on 07/06/2016 5:27:58 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

>>That’s partially do to regulations. Ominous out of OSHA and the EPA

I’ve worked in industry for 30 years. OSHA and the EPA seem bad for some person who works in an office, but if you put on a hard hat and boots and had to work every day around machinery, steam turbines, sewage, chemicals, ladders, catwalks, forklifts, etc you might view OSHA in a different light.

If you lived near a stream polluted by creosote in the 1960s and it’s still toxic today, you’d see the EPA in a different light.

OSHA and the EPA exist because companies used to shift costs of operation to the public (in the form of pollution and disabled or dead workers). Now, we Conservatives complain that companies have to pay their own costs and wish that they could shift them back to the communities they poison because the bottom line for shareholders is more important than those “little people” who live in trailers down by the mill.

When someone complains about the costs of regulation, that’s code for “I don’t want to pay for a safe workplace or to create clean discharges from my factory.”

I remember what the St Johns River smelled like in 1972. I like it much better now.


16 posted on 07/06/2016 5:41:20 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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