More interference with the markets…Why "well-regulated" is an oxymoron.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Those pesky scientists have come out with yet more alarmist rubbish about oversight and regulation and other such nonsense.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/us-nuclear-oversight-too-lax-science-group-212058088.html

Now, obviously these scientist chaps are lobbying for yet more industry oversight and government interference in an industry run by rich folk who because of their wealth and power, by definition, must be responsible. (We shall leave aside the necessary or contingent logic of capitalist ontology for another debate, unless anyone would care to dispute it here with facts.)

Also evidently, these scientist fellows are empire-building. Surely no industry needs oversight greater than that which ordinary high-school-educated folk can understand when discussing these issues over the breakfast table or in a bar after work: I mean to say, it stands to reason, doesn't it? It's not as if there has been a nuclear accident since the 70's, so obviously we are doing something right and the system works perfectly well, despite the fact that these scientists already have the NRC interfering with the normal operation of these power plants.

And just where do such scare-mongering tactics end? Isn't it about time that we revolted against these scientific overlords and their overweening hubris. Apart from choking the development of industry and putting a brake on economic progress, they are indoctrinating our children with a fear of unregulated American economic derring-do. Are they all communists and proponents of big government?

I say we should take these scientists out and horsewhip them for their unAmerican attitudes: for their own good, you understand.

I blame Obama.

You know it makes sense.

(This press release brought to you by Waylon Smithers for Charles Montgomery Burns.)

Comments

[kylinrouge.livejournal.com]

Japan has far more nuclear regulations than the US due to its geographic location known for various climate shenanigans, and yet through corruption they looked the other way one too many times.

To address the problem with more regulations when the current ones aren't being enforced is treating the symptom, not the disease. We need to put more funding into our nuclear industry so it becomes less of an issue of maintaining decades-old systems and more about expanding and upgrading. Safety people would be all over that.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

The article mentions something similar. Damn scientists trying to make ordinary people safe at the expense of noble & responsible job creators.

[kylinrouge.livejournal.com]

Don't you understand? Without government intervention these safety regulations wouldn't happened anyway from consumer pressure!

/libertarian