Unions are the reason why not.

How about coordinating the whole thing and getting enough people to act in the same way at the same time to actually make it work? And then there's the matter of what happens when you force a company out of business after they've tried to sell a product for less than their costs?

Just a couple of the many problems with your simpleminded plan.

Corzine raised a lot of money for Obama's reelection bid. This has made him immune from any real prosecution. If he were a Republican he'd be in a Supermax prison by now.

If there is one industry that does not care one bit what the public think of them, its airlines.

That's easy - dunk it in water. You'll obtain the exact functionality you are asking for.

"THIS" is becoming the new "me too". Knock it off already; this is not an AOL chatroom.

So? How bad was the inevitable clusterfuck? Did the consultants ever get it working at all?

Right, because France is full of Republican legislators.

I don't understand why every business doesn't just pull out of France altogether. It can't be worth staying in a place where the government does everything in the absolute dumbest way possible. Whenever I hear of American government stupidity stories I remind myself that at least I don't have to live in France.

You could not be more wrong. There is nothing in the comment you replied to that say anything of the sort you are claiming. The former EPA employee simply wanted to replace obsolete regulations with some that are more applicable in the modern world. You then set up your own strawman argument to attack him.

What would be wrong with tying the sunsetting of old regulations to the implementation of new ones? This law replaces the old law, etc. That way you wouldn't have to worry about old ones going away without new ones to replace them.

Public opinion is turning sharply towards favoring legalization of marijuana. If the DEA did what you said and swooped in, that would backfire big. Congressmen would be talking about chopping the DEA's budget down to basically nothing, because its what the people would want to hear.

And the problem with this is?

Politicians (mainly Democrats) want a permanent black underclass in order to foster dependency which leads to an easily exploitable constituency. What do Democrats gain from this? Lots of social programs for their buddies to administer, and a lifetime of votes from the dependent underclass. After I moved to Chicago I learned all about this, as Chicago is the home of Jesse Jackson the master race baiter.

Although I'm all in favor of marijuana decriminalization, I also don't believe that prisons are full of people who have done nothing more than get arrested with a little bit of weed. Groups like NORML tend to exaggerate this a lot. They claim someone is locked up "just for pot" when in fact they had enough to be considered a dealer along with an illegal firearm. Quite a bit of difference.