Au-H2O
05-14-2010, 05:50 PM
Stossel's show this week was on legalizing gambling. Her is what Barney Frank said about online gambling, "If individuals like doing something and they harm no one, we will allow them to do it, even if other people disapprove of what they do."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/57092.html
This reminds me of another liberal legislator....
"Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too often encourage or approve unreasonably high prices, inadequate service, and anticompetitive behavior. The cost of this regulation is always passed on to the consumer. And that cost is astronomical.
— Senator Edward Kennedy, opening remarks to the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, 6 February 1975.
It's amazing how they "get it" occasionally...
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/57092.html
This reminds me of another liberal legislator....
"Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too often encourage or approve unreasonably high prices, inadequate service, and anticompetitive behavior. The cost of this regulation is always passed on to the consumer. And that cost is astronomical.
— Senator Edward Kennedy, opening remarks to the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, 6 February 1975.
It's amazing how they "get it" occasionally...