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In reply to the discussion: The 6 Most Terrifying Facts About the Chemical Spill Contaminating West Virginia’s Drinking Water [View all]TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)to the company they become part of the calculation of the cost of doing business and another gamble in the big casino.
We also must have robust and we'll funded regulatory systems with the resources, authority, expertise, and some degree of adversarial separation in role to actually provide actual independent oversight, something even most regulation minded Democrats seem unable to conceive of in the current age, preferring industry written "self regulation" schemes with weak and largely toothless reviewers of self reporting looking for inconsistencies that may lead to some fines and bullshit statements of non confession of guilt assumable to create some flimsy illusion of justice for political herding via nostalgic shadow puppets beckoning back to a different day.
Hell, the "left wing" edge is transparency AKA...it isn't so much the hosing that is the problem but more failing inform about the screwings. I guess that is progress in the right direction but a pretty lackluster frontier.