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Originally Posted by Azure
Ron Paul also called for the EPA to be disbanded.
When the Department of the Interior is tasked to look after drilling permits in the Gulf, than they should be tasked to do the same thing in Alaska. Instead the EPA has been increasingly given power to shutdown drilling sites, and impose ridiculous regulations, like air permits which were obviously stupid considering the drilling site was 70 miles from the nearest town. The result is far too much red tape for companies to deal with, so they go elsewhere.
Does Canada have more regulations? The American people have been trying to pin us as a socialist paradise for years, but I don't think its true. We just have more common sense, and we don't create another Department of 'X' whenever something goes wrong.
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It is hard to say which country has more regulation. They may have more regs in one area and less in another.
What I know Canada is a center left country because of Quebec just like the US is center right because of the south.
There is way too much democracy and litigation.
Ring road would never happen as quickly as it did in Seattle because of the amount of litigation or referenda would set it back years longer from starting.
The downtown viaduct from the 50's is on the verge of collapse from the '01 earthquake. Plebesites have been held, mayors and governors elected with a plan yet there is another referendum whether to do a tunnel versus above ground.
There is another referendum in August because people who didn't liked the result of the last referendum demanded another one hoping for a different result.
It goes on and on.
Vancouver Olympics have come and gone. This could never have happened in Seattle in that timeframe with all the infrastructure created like the Canada Line, it would have been in Environmental Impact stage still.
Maybe too much democracy and too many lawyers...
