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? asked in Politics & GovernmentElections · 9 years ago

isnt the recent garment fire tragedy in paki proof that strong government regulation is necessary to protect?

workers lives? pakistan has no worker safety commision, no OSHA, no strong workers labor rights department. what do you think "conservatives", "republicans", "libertarians", "anarchists", "crazy people"?

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Do you understand that all these great protections and labor laws and child labor and education laws are only possible because of a country's prosperity, not the other way around?

    Only prosperous countries can afford to put such regulation on business. In a poor country where there is not much investment or wealth, all those regulations are an effective barrier against creating a business.

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    I guess the discussion is over your head.

    Happy thoughts do not trump harsh reality.

  • Yep, most of the Republicans on here now are too young to remember the day the Cuyahoga River caught fire. Those type of things, Love Canal, the Cuyahoga River fire, Coal Mine cave-ins and explosions used to be the normal routine that the Republicans are trying to take the USA back to.

    From Wiki

    The Cuyahoga River at one time was one of the most polluted rivers in the United States. The reach from Akron to Cleveland was devoid of fish. A Kent State University symposium, convened one year before the infamous 1969 fire, described one section of the river:

    From 1,000 feet below Lower Harvard Bridge to Newburgh and South Shore Railroad Bridge, the channel becomes wider and deeper and the level is controlled by Lake Erie. Downstream of the railroad bridge to the harbor, the depth is held constant by dredging, and the width is maintained by piling along both banks. The surface is covered with the brown oily film observed upstream as far as the Southerly Plant effluent. In addition, large quantities of black heavy oil floating in slicks, sometimes several inches thick, are observed frequently. Debris and trash are commonly caught up in these slicks forming an unsightly floating mess. Anaerobic action is common as the dissolved oxygen is seldom above a fraction of a part per million. The discharge of cooling water increases the temperature by 10 °F (5.56 °C) to 15 °F (8.33 °C). The velocity is negligible, and sludge accumulates on the bottom. Animal life does not exist. Only the algae Oscillatoria grows [sic] along the piers above the water line. The color changes from gray-brown to rusty brown as the river proceeds downstream. Transparency is less than 0.5 feet in this reach. This entire reach is grossly polluted.[11]

    At least 13 fires have been reported on the Cuyahoga River, the first occurring in 1868.[12] The largest river fire in 1952 caused over $1 million in damage to boats and a riverfront office building.[13] Fires erupted on the river several more times before June 22, 1969, when a river fire captured the attention of Time magazine, which described the Cuyahoga as the river that "oozes rather than flows" and in which a person "does not drown but decays".

    And this is what the Republicans want to take us back to.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    sophisticated matter check out using google it may help

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    No, only animals need to be caged, if they act like animals they should be caged and shot.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Wrong category.

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