Most Americans don't have any idea how well the Department of Agriculture protects the grower at the expense of the consumer. When a chemical is banned from use, a farmer or livestock operator who has the chemical in stock has a choice: either to lose money by disposing of the product, or to use it and take the risk of getting caught breaking the law. How severe is that risk? Well, if you use a banned product in your cattle feed, you have to face the prospect that the government is going to inspect one out of every 250,000 carcasses. They will test this carcass not for all banned substances, but just for a small fraction of them. And even if they detect some residue of a banned substance, and even if they're able to trace the carcass to the ranch that produced it, the guilty rancher is likely at most to receive a stern letter with a strongly worded warning. I never met a rancher who suffered in any way from breaking any regulation meant to protect the safety of our meat. The whole procedure is, in short, a charade.
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My friends, I have violated no law, no regulation, no code of ethics and no House rule, ... I am innocent and I will prove it.
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At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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[The FCC's defenders say the agency is just one actor on a multiplayer stage dominated by Congress, the White House and industry.] The FCC is in a very difficult position, ... They are trying to deregulate a regulated industry in a way that creates new competition and doesn't lead to new regulation of the new industry. Frankly, the FCC is trying to untie this Gordian knot one strand at a time.
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Government regulation on the local level is the problem.
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