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Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by cannonedhamster on Friday April 05, 2019 @10:49PM (#19588860)
We had 8 years of Republicans curbing back regulatory oversight, increasing regulatory capture. The sitting President won on "draining the swamp" and proceeded to hire lobbyists to his staff because "they know how the system works" and yet there's been only further deregulation and destruction of government entities. If Americans want it to stop they will stop voting for people who literally base their party platform on destroying government oversight. There was literally an article yesterday about how when the IRS went after the wealthy for tax evasion, their budget was cut by Congress. The solution to this is a political one. Vote in people who believe differently if you want different outcomes. Otherwise quit complaining, you've got the government the people voted for.
Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by BeetleB on Saturday April 06, 2019 @12:16AM (#19589197)
>We had 8 years of Republicans curbing back regulatory oversight

What about the 8 years before that? Clinton did a fair amount of deregulation, and holds more of the blame for the financial meltdown:

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,288...

Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by mirimir on Saturday April 06, 2019 @02:54AM (#19589634)
That's because he was really a Republican, and just pretended to be a Democrat.
Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by AntiTechTechie on Friday April 05, 2019 @11:41PM (#19589056)
Imagine thinking that you could vote out the corruption in U.S. politics...
Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by tengbretson on Friday April 05, 2019 @11:37PM (#19589037)
If I were to increase regulatory capture while cutting back regulations how exactly would I do that?
Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by Zarath on Saturday April 06, 2019 @03:44AM (#19589748)
Ajit Pai: Regulatory capture by serving corporate interests and destroying net neutrality.

Also Ajit Pai: Destroy net neutrality, which was seen as a "regulation" in the way of a free market.

Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by mvc on Saturday April 06, 2019 @04:55AM (#19589919)
I don't have an MBA but I imagine it involves hiring a few of the folks who currently regulate your operations while leaning on your political friends to cut regulation funding and spinning up an "independent" company prepared to shoulder the regulatory burden for a fraction of the cost.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/us/politics/boeing-faa.ht...

Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by mirimir on Saturday April 06, 2019 @02:58AM (#19589645)
Huh?

Regulatory capture (i.e., capture by whatever's being regulated) and cutting back regulations both have the same effect: weaker regulation.

Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by chris_t on Saturday April 06, 2019 @08:06AM (#19590359)
Sadly it is often not so simple. Complex regulations can advantage large incumbent firms by making it harder for newer entrants to their markets.
Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by xkcd-sucks on Saturday April 06, 2019 @12:07AM (#19589157)
"subject to approval by $DEPARTMENT on the basis of $VAGUE_SUBJECTIVE_CRITERIA"
Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by wahern on Saturday April 06, 2019 @01:15AM (#19589376)
EPA is a good example, but in any event regulatory capture doesn't imply more regulation, it's just descriptive about the manner in which a regulator behaves institutionally.
Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by whatshisface on Saturday April 06, 2019 @12:07AM (#19589156)
Cut the good regulations, keep the bad ones.
Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by xfitm3 on Friday April 05, 2019 @10:52PM (#19588875)
Can you not make this a political party issue?
Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by taeric on Friday April 05, 2019 @11:00PM (#19588911)
I have no doubt that democrats can and will do some stupid crap. Evidence is pretty heavy on the republicans being the main party pushing through this kind of policy for the relevant part of history.

Now, if you don't think regulatory rollback is to blame, that is a different thing. Attack that. Attacking the detail that republicans have been the main ones rolling back? That is actually making it unnecessarily partisan. I say that as someone that agrees that the point is stronger without bringing up who did it.

Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by duxup on Friday April 05, 2019 @10:54PM (#19588889)
I'm not going to get into the details of his theory, but if he believes it is a political party issue, then he's not "making" it one.
Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by xfitm3 on Friday April 05, 2019 @10:56PM (#19588895)
You should get into the details. Why do you agree it’s a political party issue?
Re:Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America by duxup on Friday April 05, 2019 @10:57PM (#19588902)
I didn't say it was, neither did the other person.