(05-18-2020, 08:07 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(05-17-2020, 10:16 PM)mikesez Wrote: The Nordic countries have less regulation in many sectors, but their taxes are much higher and the benefits are much higher.  
I was blessed to go on a business trip to Germany recently, our hosts were a manufacturing company and they wanted to show us products we didn't know about and ask what was keeping us from specifying the products we did know about.  The conversation touched on OSHA, the NEC, and the state building codes.  The Germans were surprised and confused, 
"why? Why all these requirements?" 
"You have to make it idiot proof.  If an idiot uses it, it doesn't work, but it also doesn't hurt him." 
"These are not consumer goods! This is machinery that only trained people should be touching." 
"How trained?" 
"Trained for months. Trained since high school." 
"We don't have people like that in the US. We assume that somebody would be touching this machine on their first day."
They just couldn't understand it. They accept it, but they don't understand it. The Nordic countries have taken a similar attitude to workplace safety issues and regulations.

But, do you remember when you used to try and pass yourself off as a conservative?

You stand for nothing.