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The company I work for is hamstrung by mandated political correctness including diversity programs, environmental programs, and safety programs. Even though we’re a clean electronic assembler we’re terrified of the various federal, state, and local EPA organizations; any one of which can instantly shut us down. (Recently, a fire sprinkler head leaked a dime-sized drop of rusted water. You’d have thought it was purified plutonium. Somebody had to stand beside it while someone else ran for the “danger, wet floor” cone. Then, they had to have a “qualified” person wipe it up.)

We haven’t had an OSHA inspection lately, but we certainly get about two hours of irrelevant (to us) OSHA lectures a year.

Then, there’s legal liability. It’s not a matter of whether you’re going to be sued. It’s a matter when. As I understand it, the company is in court somewhere in the country basically all year around.

These are all problems brought to us by our government. If you examine the regulations on the micro-scale, they mostly make sense. But on the large scale and all combined, they kill industry. I know if I wanted to start a business, I couldn’t do it here. I have owned two companies, and I had to abandon the second because the taxes (fees) cost me more than I made. I think I could have pulled it off given more time, but the government wants its money for the privilege of doing business in their fair state NOW.

The legal/regulatory environment in America is another anachronism - a set of rules meant for large, unionized industrial corporations which now limits the opportunities of small businesses and independent contractors (severely, for the latter). Get companies out of the health care business and stop penalizing them for using independent contractors, and you'll see a huge spike in non-traditional employment opportunities in America.

The Industrial Revolution is over and the traditional job is dead, but too many rent-seeking vultures are profiting from the red tape put in place under the old system. Either we sweep them away, or China will.

"The company I work for is hamstrung by mandated political correctness including diversity programs, environmental programs, and safety programs."

Those have been popular methods of competition for big business for a long time. Corporates have also had quite a few false environmentalist women work for them to prevent small business competition at the county level (small developments, energy, sawmills, etc.). They control politics through their "progressives" posing as conservatives.

The following are Fortune 500s that filed briefs in favor of “affirmative action” in the Michigan “Grutter v. Bollinger” (Michigan University) case.

http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus/32_internatl.pdf

3M
Abbott Laboratories
American Airlines
Ashland
Bank One
Boeing
Coca-Cola
Dow Chemical
E.I. Du Pont De Nemours
Eastman Kodak
Eli Lilly
Ernst & Young
Exelon
Fannie Mae
General Dynamics
General Mills
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
Kellogg
KPMG
Lucent Technologies
Microsoft
Mitsubishi
Nationwide Mutual Insurance
Nationwide Financial
Pfizer
PPG
Proctor & Gamble
Sara Lee
Steelcase
Texaco
TRW
United Airlines
General Motors Corporation

http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus/gru_gm.html