See your analogy is lost on me. I didn't put my kid in a daycare center. She doesn't go to a government indoctrination center either.
EPA Regulations have been a joke for years. Catalytic converters were supposed to help the environment by reducing pollution. The dirty little secret is now they don't know what to do with them once they have gone past being useful because they are so contaminated.
Some idiot in the government made it mandatory that we have some stupid additive in gasoline that helps reduce emissions, however this additive has whole new kind of pollution that gets into and poisons the water table.
I think it was P.J. O'Roruke who said it best: "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
They [government] have taken what sounds like laudable goals like food safety and pollution reduction and turned it into a giant money sucking vacuum that can never get full enough.
You are picking out the stupid gov. regulations. If you reread my post I said there was a fine line between going to far with regulations. I agree the gov't has gone too far in their regulations. However in every regulatory category you cite I would not want to be without any of them. Anarchy would result.