Executive order "requires that regulations protect our safety, health and environment"

[UrbScotty]

Emphasis mine:

But throughout our history, one of the reasons the free market has worked is that we have sought the proper balance. We have preserved freedom of commerce while applying those rules and regulations necessary to protect the public against threats to our health and safety and to safeguard people and businesses from abuse.

...

This order requires that federal agencies ensure that regulations protect our safety, health and environment while promoting economic growth. And it orders a government-wide review of the rules already on the books to remove outdated regulations that stifle job creation and make our economy less competitive. It's a review that will help bring order to regulations that have become a patchwork of overlapping rules, the result of tinkering by administrations and legislators of both parties and the influence of special interests in Washington over decades.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703396604576088272112103698.html

Hmm. Striking a balance. I thought that's why we elected him - to think things through and strike a balance. At least that's why I voted for him in the fall of 2008, and why I supported him in the primaries (though I couldn't vote for him).

Of course, here on DU, I see threads about how this makes him a non-Democrat, how he has betrayed us, etc. I wonder how many of them actually read this editorial?

[Armstead]

1. WE need balance on the side of regulation -- Not the other way around

Yes, there has to be a balance.

But ever since the 1970's, regulation has been steadily stripped away to benefit the Corporate Elite at the expense of everyone else. hence we've gotten ourselves in a whole world of dung as a result.

Rather than repeating and reinforcing the Corporate CONservative mantra, Obama would do a lot more to restore true balance by defending regulations and the reasons for them.

[UrbScotty]

2. ???

Rather than repeating and reinforcing the Corporate CONservative mantra, Obama would do a lot more to restore true balance by defending regulations and the reasons for them.

What? When and where has he reinforced THEIR mantra? I just pointed out where he defended such regulations... so, your turn!

[emulatorloo]

3. People are in fly off the handle mode these days

[Armstead]

7. I think he should not be focusing on it. Instead take it case-by-case

It has too many echoes of Clinton's "era of big government is over."

While it is always good to trim paperwork, remove outdated regs, and find middle ground, we are far more in need of re-regulation in many areas.

For one example, the approval of the merger of Comcast/NBC announced yesterday is yet another example of how this goverment continues to ignore -- or worse, enable --the kind of consolidation of corporate wealth and power into fewer hands that is at the core of our problems today.

Instead of agreeing with the corporate bosses, Obama should be reviving regulations like anti-trust regulation and diversity of media ownership.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. I'm telling you now, good recreational space within walking distance

of your home is necessary. Put that up there as one of the things that people don't think about when legislatures start messing with the wordage.

[Ian David]

5. This makes no mention of {classified} flesh-eating. n/t

[SpartanDem]

6. Why read it for yourself

when you can let the media interpret it for you?

Signed

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