The pursuit in personal interests and limitation on
governmental control seemed to go in a weird direction with Senator Tillis’
idea of skewed sanitary regulations in food chains. Senator Tillis believes that employees should
not be regulated to wash their hands after they use the restroom as long as the
facility has a sign that states employees aren’t forced to practice those basic
hygienic practices. It’s ironic that the Senator wants to venture from
regulations, yet in his basic argument, he mentions the condition of needing to
warn the public with signs. Oh well. Politics, I guess.
Adam
Smith’s works have been read and interpreted by millions of people, inspiring
numerous tangents people have gone off on. I am sure that people have read
Smith’s writing and inherited an extremist view of his policies, while others
merely nod in agreement of disbelief.
Senator
Tillis’ interpretation of Smith’s free-market system utilizes some imaginative
ideals. As Michelle pointed out, healthcare and FDA restrictions were not quite
around in Smith’s time, so Senator Tillis had to apply basic theories and
polices to today’s issues.
Now, I am
quite certain, much like Senator Tillis, that facilities who choose not to
participate in the enforcement of hand washing would eventually die out,
because, I mean, natural selection and all that fun stuff. Unlike Senator
Tillis, I don’t believe that making employees wash their hands should be up for
debate. We already have to use the honor code with the regulation. There aren’t
random soap checks or any other method to make sure employees wash their hands.
I guess I just don’t understand why it is such a big deal. Yes, strong
government regulations are a little rocky and could lead to some rough times
and policies, but must we really use valuable government time to discuss
sanitary practices that were written into Barney songs?
Yikes! This is where I draw the line between libertarian and ludicrous. It's interesting to see exactly what issues different people see as government encroachment. I see myself as a pretty firm libertarian, but I take great umbrage at the people who say libertarianism is akin to anarchism, because there are certain protocols which no doubt should be reinforced by the feds, and this is definitely one of those!
ReplyDeleteThe irony that you point out here is that it's really quite impossible to ever eliminate a regulation. It takes a new regulation to eliminate an old one, and usually, because of the nature of the political process, something else besides "let's undo something we did in the past" usually happens.
ReplyDeleteThus, going on a mission to stop regulation tends to lead to more regulations, just of a different type.