I’m actually getting a little less libertarian over the last few weeks or months.
There’s a libertarian belief that most pollution problems can be solved with lawsuits.
Pollution is not what it used to be. You used to be able to see it, smell it, tell what it was, and where it came from, and what the effects are or were. You know who did it, and you could sue them.
The EPA and FDA do have valid rationales. Would the FDA be the ones who can say NO GMO? I really want to be able to avoid GMO. What about plastic in food containers containing estrogen? I want my soda in glass bottles please. And I know that I’m sounding even to myself like a nanny stater and I don’t like it.
I just want to be able to buy natural food. Not that I’ll do it all the time, but I want the option to be there, easily, to people who really want it. I don’t want to eat potatoes with a gene spliced in from a bacteria. I just don’t and there either a ban on GMO, especially the gene spliced kind, or a labeling system that’s capable of being understood.
I was a lawyer back in the day, well, technically I still am, and when I was in law school we were talking about the various types of rationales for laws. Usually that’s just mumbo jumbo to get you thinking that crazy is normal, but one idea did sound reasonable to me. Laws are there as a remedy for unequal power in a bargaining arrangement. The individual consumer is powerless. No labeling requirements? Wow, a consumer with an allergy has a tough row to hoe.
Now, all of these agencies which do have a point all have been epic fail for years. They have been captured by the industries they regulate and instead of being on the side of the little guy, who they’re supposed to protect, they’re on the side of the GMO seed dealer and they’re going out of their way to put restrictions on wholesome natural food. Regulation of Farmers Markets. Restrictions on raw milk.
Paperwork for roadside stands. Instead of saying “get rid of the FDA” we can say the FDA needs to have everyone fired.
It has to stop listening to Monsanto and ADM and start listening to the people. And you read through mind numbing reg after reg, figuring out how it’s screwing the little guy and helping Monsanto and ADM, changing the law to where it should be.
Education: kids can learn to read on the internet. Everythings there. No school sleep in. If you want, we can give you a test every so often. There can still be a school if you want to go, but they’re expensive, and the people would rather give you a laptop and a cable modem. $2200 - $1200 a year for the triple play and a pretty decent $1000 laptop. I coulda skipped high school at least.
FEC is power disparity again. FCC is scarce resources and their allocation. The airwaves are scarce so the government has to allocate them. Cable can be as dirty as it wants to be. No FCC, no allocation of scarce resources, no broadcasting using the public airwaves. They put down that cable and they can put anything they want through it. No doubt cable co’s can be dicks, and they do have a monopoly in given markets, which is often granted at the local level.
The FCC also is involved with setting rules with the 900 2.4 and 5.8. 2.4 is wifi. FCC needs to allow high power wifi hotspots. There should be, if there isn’t already, a waiver process for rural wifi providers to up the wattage on the routers. You get fiber to the top of Cadillac Mountain. You have a building with a computer or computers and a router and or routers and an array of directional antennas.
From that mountain, with a powerful antenna, and a more powerful than currently allowed amplifier. I think it’s 33db for the amp now? That’s 2 watts? Anyway, the entire coastline of downeast maine could get blazing fast wifi. I’m talking people on boats 300mbps Wireless N. Any tall mountain has a powerful signal. Point your powerful antenna at the powerful signal on the mountain and you’re good. Free. Government pays for it. It’s like a road. The QoS will be not so good. It’ll be fast, but sometimes when it’s rainy it’ll go out, whatever. It’s free. It allows anyone anywhere in the middle of the woods to make a living on the internet. A shack, a wood stove, a solar panel, in stream water, gorlov turbine, and 300mbps wireless for free.
We shouldn’t be depopulating the wilderness. With technology people can work there. They can grow food and make money on the internet. Anyway, you mentioned abolishing FCC and those are some thoughts on FCC.
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