So much red tape!

• Gingrich Admits Deregulation Of Wall Street In The '90s Was 'Probably A Mistake' | ThinkProgress  (Nov 2011)
• Romney's Red Herring: Blaming Regulation For Fishing Woes That Smart Regulations Could Have Prevented | ThinkProgress (5/6/2012) http://goo.gl/dJguc
• The Regulation Monster and the Confidence Fairy | Beat the Press - CEPR (6/21/2012) http://goo.gl/AT32l
• Jonathan Weisman went to western Pennsylvania, which is at the center of the Marcellus Shale, in search of the regulation monster. While the piece includes comments from industry people who complain about regulation, the people who live in the area all report no evidence of any regulation whatsoever. They seem to believe that the industry gets away with pretty much whatever it wants. The evidence on natural gas prices would seem to support the residents' case. The current spot price is down by more than 40 percent from what it was when President Obama took office. In fact, there have been many reports in the business press of gas companies scaling back drilling plans because prices are too low.
• In short, there is about as much evidence for the regulation monster in the energy industry as there is for the confidence fairy in the macroeconomic picture. Yet, these mythical creatures seem destined to have enormous importance in national politics and policy debates. Better get to know them.
• Farron Cousins | Death Of A Talking Point? Regulations Actually Create Jobs (8/30/2011)  
• The lie that EPA regulations kill jobs: "'Job-Killing' EPA Regulations for Chesapeake Bay Will Create 35 Times as Many Jobs as Keystone XL Pipeline" | ThinkProgress (1/4/2012) 

We need regulations, b/c you know, lack of them kills people

• Lab Scandal, Meningitis Outbreak: Signs Of Risky Public Health Cuts | CommonHealth - (10/2012) http://bit.ly/QVhAQQ
• ThinkProgress, As GOP Guts Food Safety Budgets, New Data Show Illnesses On The Rise  http://bit.ly/PiiZga (7/30/2012) 
• Republican sees the light, calls for federal regulation | KnoxViews (6/21/2012) http://goo.gl/4QSD1
• Coal-ash regulation may be weakened | The Tennessean | tennessean.com (6/20/2012) http://goo.gl/hbxTa
• It has now been 3½ years since my community was devastated by the largest coal-ash disaster in history. It’s been two years this week since the Environmental Protection Agency proposed safeguards to prevent future disasters. This isn’t deliberation — this is delay — and people with coal ash dumps in their backyards cannot wait any longer.
• The Roane County disaster released more than 1 billion gallons of ash into our yards, water and air. Nearly four years later, we haven’t fully recovered. The water is getting clearer and homes have been repaired or purchased by the Tennessee Valley Authority, but the memories still impact our housing prices and morale in our community.
• Worse still, the Roane County coal ash disaster was not the only one of its kind. There are nearly 200 known cases of water contamination caused by irresponsible coal ash disposal all across the country — cases where pollutants like arsenic, mercury and chromium enter the water that people drink and where people fish, swim and play.
• After the Roane County disaster we believed that the EPA would protect communities because, at the time, the disaster was the biggest spill of any type in U.S. history and fresh on everyone’s minds. As the years go by without any federal action, the disaster may fade for people in D.C. or even Nashville, but not for us in Roane County.
• I am often a strong advocate for less regulation, but large corporations like TVA obviously need strict oversight. Our memories are not fading. Instead, our frustration is growing, because we know that politicians can move fast when they want to. But if big polluters are calling the shots, progress and protections are easily delayed. 
• It was only one year after EPA proposed coal-ash safeguards that U.S. Rep. David McKinley of West Virginia introduced a bill to undermine EPA’s efforts and remove their authority to address the ash problem. Since then, Rep. McKinley’s dangerous legislation has become part of the federal transportation bill and is on the verge of becoming law.
• From: Here's How The Deadliest US Outbreak Of Foodborne Disease In Nearly 100 Years Spread - Business Insider (10/2012) - http://read.bi/Rzedy0 
• Bloomberg Markets has released a bombshell report today that looks at how the FDA has slowly been phazed out of US food safety inspections, and replaced with for-profit inspection companies.
• These for-profit inspection companies conduct food safety inspections with no rules or government oversight. This has resulted in sometimes dangerous lapses in food safety.
• One example of this was an outbreak in 2011 that centered around a melon farm audited by a for-profit inspection company. This graphic, used with permission from Bloomberg Markets, shows you exactly how the outbreak spread.
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