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Dismantling of a U.S. workplace safety rule
- sverige 8y agoGenerally speaking, I oppose new regulations because they are very often overly burdensome and costly. But reversing these 'ancillary' regulations after years of negotiation with the concerned parties and reasonably predictable benefits for worker safety seems pretty fucking stupid.
- ScannerBrightly 8y agoPretty fucking stupid is par for the course right now
- bradknowles 8y agoNero fiddled while Rome burned. I’m convinced that he did so, because he got real joy out of watching Rome burn. Trump sure likes to fiddle a lot.
- zaarn 8y agoThe fiddle was first recorded around the 9th century, by then Nero had been dead for a very long time.
- joe_the_user 8y agoThe Obama administration did a lot of ostensibly good things in it's waning days. But these are strange to look at since they bring up the question, "how much did they expect this stand? When they saw an administration with a wholly different outlook ready to take over, what were they thinking?" It's mysterious, frustrating or just "what you'd expect" (in a bad way) to me.
- ddebernardy 8y agoBut hindsight is 20/20. Hardly anyone was expecting Trump to win.
- thereisnospork 8y agoIt's good politics, if nothing else. More good-sounding* policies for the opposition to have to spend political capital removing. Legislative cannon-fodder, in other words. *The actual virtue of the policies being mostly irrelevant.
- isostatic 8y agoWhy remove them then? They’re either ineffectual, in which case leave them, good, so leave them, or bad, so remove them. Given that it was quite possible that the democrats would have won in 2016, would Clinton have been pushing to remove them? If they are really bad (rather than good or irelevent) then they’d need to be removed.
- dmode 8y agoTrump will sell his country to enrich himself, so not really surprised that he doesn’t give two hoots about factory workers
- TomMckenny 8y ago>Hours after OSHA announced the beryllium rule delay on March 21, 2017, Byrne sent another letter to the agency...The letter thanked OSHA for the delay but urged it to issue a new beryllium rule that did not include the ancillary safety provisions for the shipyard and construction industries. >That same day, Byrne’s re-election campaign received $5,000 in contributions from the Associated Builders & Contractors Coincidence?
- ams6110 8y agoHate to think a politician could be bought for a paltry amount like $5,000. I mean, should not be able to be bought at all, but $5,000... That's nothing.
- alexpetralia 8y agoMy dad often says: "you'd be surprised how cheaply people will sell themselves for." I have found this to be true over and over again.
- nitwit005 8y agoI certainly felt this back in university when reading about police corruption investigations. The amounts involved often just seemed sad.
- eesmith 8y agoThere's a quote along the lines "the surprise isn't that politicians can be bought, but that you or I could afford them." Searching now, I can't find the quote. I did find "It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought." by Timothy Noah at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/08/bob-ney-character-witness.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/08/bob-ney-characte... .
- jessaustin 8y agoYou'd think the shipyard workers' union could probably pony up that... maybe the politician could have an auction or something.
- ykevinator 8y agoThe only reason I vote Democrat is stuff like this.