Comment by jyounker
3 months ago
It's nobody on here is talking about Rheinhardt's #2 point: The US is not spending enough on regulation. He specifically points out that regulators are underfunded and understaffed. In the US, this is often an active strategy by conservative politicians to undermine regulations, and portray the story that the regulations are bad, when in fact, the regulatory agencies are being intentionally preventing doing their jobs efficiently.
The current administration is defunding anything they dont agree with. How many departments have folded within the past year?
It's zero surprise that they wont fund any regulations. I'm honestly still surprised the NHTSB is still around at the rate they're going.
They are trying to kill the Chemical Safety Hazard and Investigation Board (CSB)
https://cen.acs.org/safety/industrial-safety/White-House-mov...
Same group that makes these amazing post-portems on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcMnf86n8_U
If he believes the US is not spending enough on regulation, he shouldn't describe the situation as "over-regulation."