Are regulations killing US jobs?

[PETRUS]

Politicians pushing right-wing positions assume they can say anything about economics with little scrutiny.

by Dean Baker

Politicians pushing right-wing positions in public debate now operate with the assumption that they can get away with saying anything without getting serious scrutiny from the media. That is why right-wing politicians repeatedly blame government regulation for the failure of the economy to generate jobs. Even though there is no truth whatsoever to the claim, right-wing politicians know that the media will treat their nonsense respectfully in news coverage.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/10/201110197948847722.html

More at the link.

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[dkf]

2. Well is it easier and faster to build a factory in China or the US?

If you care nothing for safety, the approval of the neighbors, the impact on the traffic, and just want to build the damned plant then yes regulations are a disadvantage.

[jwirr]

14. Until the dam you just built breaks. I agree that is exactly what they

mean when rethugs complain about regulations.

[JCMach1]

16. Only the financing is easier... try getting a loan for a new plant in America

[FarLeftFist]

3. I love how the republicans forget that de-regulation is what got us into this mess.

[lumpy]

13. True, many people cheat, are greedy, without integrity, lust

after money, committ fraud and will do almost anything for money so obviously society needs rules and regulations. That has been proven throughout history.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. of course they can say just about anything without scrutiny. how do you think we

got the Iraq war shoved down our throats, or the PATRIOT Acts, or NCLB? or everything else that's put the boot on what little that was left of representative democracy

just look at how hard NPR is working to quash any sort of appearance 'left wing' influence on their reporting, while they run business boosting shows like Marketplace every day

''liberal media'' is the biggest lie since Goebbels was the champion of that tactic

[newspeak]

8. here, let me have a laugh

:rofl: Little boots deregulated and cut regulatory departments, He publicly stated that his friends, corporations, could police themselves. And how's that working for us? Sure we can have unsafe working conditions (do to some extent, look at the mining disasters), lower slave wages, while corporations can contaminate our water supply, our food. Yeah, we could have a flock of global corporations who could give a damn about the people or our country come in and make us all slaves while contaminating the commons. After all, hasn't that what some so-called american companies have done in foreign lands? If we want, we can all work in hazardous conditions at slave wages while they contaminate the whole country. Is it really worth it?

Of course having a strong regulatory system also adds decent jobs. And, I don't see any of the industrialized european countries having a problem with even stricter regulations than what we have. So, as usual, the repugs are full of shite.

[seabeyond]

5. no. i am pro business. was in corps 80's and 90's when there were more reg

and though companies bitched about them, they adjusted and had healthy profit. companies find ways to intregrate. now, it is ore unregulated and we see it in our foods, in our products and in our areas that run off greed adn screws and hurts us all.

[madokie]

6. The deal with our must have environmental laws is it cuts into the obscene corporate profits

As their quarterly filings show they are more than capable of making a huge profit in spite of our much needed environmental laws.
I say screw the corporate boards who are making many of the decision to ship our much needed jobs off shore. In my way of thinking they are being traitors to the very constitution that we all live by that our country was founded on.

[spanone]

7. oddly enough, i've seen no 'american' news outlet ask this same question.

wouldn't want to offend the right

[aquart]

9. No. Meeting regulatory requirements creates jobs. And industries.

[JDPriestly]

10. The right-wing doesn't want regulations that protect the environment,

especially our air and water, and prevent disease and birth and other genetic defects.

The right-wing doesn't want regulations that protect workers in the workplace.

The right-wing doesn't want taxes.

The right-wing doesn't want regulations that prohibit them from business practices that permit them to steal from the less sophisticated with whom they do business.

The right-wing doesn't want regulations that prohibit them from advertising their products to our children in the schools.

The right-wing doesn't want regulations that require schools to teach science rather than religious propaganda in our schools.

The right-wing doesn't want the government to prohibit the sale of unsafe products in the US.

So, basically, the right-wing wants to be able to profit from things that harm the rest of us.

Basically, they want to benefit from the misery of the rest of us. That's what they are all about.

Anyone who votes for this right-wing agenda is a fool.

[kentuck]

11. Amen!

to that observation. Right wing nonsense gets treated respectfully no matter how silly it is.

[dkf]

12. Here is the dilemma...the American people won't accept the things that the Chinese do

The types of regulations that would need to be reduced to get us at parity with the Chinese would lead to NIMBYism up the wazoo.

That is why you will never see Republicans proposing to make those reductions. That is also why corporate America goes straight to China.

[meow2u3]

15. No. It's the LACK of regulations that are killing US jobs