How government regulations create more demand for government programs

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The Clean Air Act has created a nation hooked on Medicare. They pass feel-good legislation in the guise of protecting us when the true goal is to get a nation hooked on big government largesse in the form of Medicare!

Air quality across the United States has improved dramatically since 1970 when Congress passed the Clean Air Act ... According to data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), levels of all major air pollution contaminants (ozone, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter and lead) are down significantly since 1970; carbon monoxide levels alone dropped by more than 70 percent.

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A 2009 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that efforts to reduce fine particle pollution ... have added between four and eight months to the average American’s life expectancy in recent years. Overall, Americans are living some two and three-quarter years longer than during the 1980s.

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Pope and his team analyzed life expectancy, economic, demographic and pollution data from 51 metropolitan areas, and found that when fine-particle air pollution dropped by 10 micrograms per cubic meter, life expectancy rose by 31 weeks—such as in Akron, Ohio and Philadelphia. Where fine particle counts dropped even more—by 13 to 14 micrograms, such as in New York City, Buffalo and Pittsburgh—people lived some 43 weeks longer on average.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-air-quality-on-mend

[slim 1,514]

Govt. begets more govt.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Evil government keeping good businesses from ensuring that Americans don't become too much of a drain on the retirement systems.

[slim 1,514]

Or just letting people exercise their own liberties.

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Evil government keeping good businesses from ensuring that Americans don't become too much of a drain on the retirement systems.

Who benefits when more Americans live longer?

Government employees, that's who! All those jobs administering the monstrosity that is Medicare.

[slim 1,514]

The only thing government has to do to be successful is grow.

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The only thing government has to do to be successful is grow.

You sound like a fortune cookie.

[slim 1,514]

You sound like a fortune cookie.

Name one business out there that could succeed if they manufactured nothing, sold nothing, and got bigger every year.

[Ban Hammer 12,829]

slim, can you log off of vj for the night before i run out of +1's?

[slim 1,514]

slim, can you log off of vj for the night before i run out of +1's?

My posts are irrelevant and annoying to some. You must be "wrong" about everything too, charles!.

[Ban Hammer 12,829]

My posts are irrelevant and annoying to some. You must be "wrong" about everything too, charles!.

maybe this is my next avatar.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The only thing government has to do to be successful is grow.

Not really Slim. In the UK, the Labour Toby was in power for 13 years, i don't think many would characterise them as having a successful record in that time.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

My posts are irrelevant and annoying to some. You must be "wrong" about everything too, charles!.

Their just a little off topic. This is clearly a joke thread.

Edited April 26, 2011 by Sousuke

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You sound like a fortune cookie.

I don't know where people get this idea that a lack of government automatically equates to freedom, it's so simplistic as to be utterly laughable.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Name one business out there that could succeed if they manufactured nothing, sold nothing, and got bigger every year.

Many NPOs