@Tolstoy - If I recall, it was put out by some free market organization....hence they did not attribute issues to free trade! lol
But, I think it is hard to believe that limiting our ability to gather our own oil...while giving billions to, for example, Brazil and Mexico to DRILL IN THE GULF where we can't...is confusing at best.
I pay the bills in my house, and the cost of energy is *skyrocketing*. I put gas in my car...it is *skyrocketing*...Everything you buy, everything you eat, has, in part of it's cost, *energy*. Thus, the cost of energy becomes extremely relevant to everyone's life, to the ability of companies to survive. (Comapny has to pay more for energy, raises cost of poducts, which consumers can no longer pay because it costs so much just to get to work and buy food...company goes out of business...enough of this happens and then housing prices start to decline and...and...and...) Energy can have a very dramatic influence on the economy.
Beyond that, when you have american companies that are so burdened by regulations their profit margin is diminished to the point of non-existence in order to simply file the paperwork necessary to convince the government you are in complinace (yes, this is hyperbole)...which, of course, is only "complaint" until the next EPA nutbag changes the rules....this forces companies....two feet over the Texas border into Mexico....or Canada, or across the ocean where they can do as they please.
I am not suggesting that we need no regulation....I walked down the streets as a kid choking on car exhaust, and the rivers were filthy everywhere...but just look at an automobile, and if you know anything about them you would know that every car out there is a monument to government regulation. Fiat wanted to bring the 500 over to the US because of its great gas mileage...which it *HAD* until US regulators forced massive design changes to the vehicle, and stripped out a *lot* of fuel efficiency. Now the government is considering *requiring* BACKUP cameras in cars....MORE regualtion...MORE expense...making cars *less* available to the average consumer...which hurts sales, which hurts the manufacturer....which hurts you, the employee (or recently laid-off employee)...
As the video says, you destroy the country by convincing people you are doing thigs to help./protect them....when in reality, it is harm. Backup cameras and backup warnings *sounds* like a noble thing....they protect people from running over children behind a car. What's wrong with that? Well...when dad loses his job, and little baby Johnny can't be properly cared for and goes hungry and can't get a good education and grows up in poverty and poor health....when all Driver Jow had to do was turn his head and look backwards before he backed up....you know, be aware of his surroundings....you tell me -- is a backup camera a noble thing? Or just more burdensome regulation? Which piles on and piles on and piles on and is killing business. I can't even own and operate a vending machine without government oversight...
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