I realize everyone's outrage meter has long since fallen off over this administration, but here's another one:
Since George W. Bush became president, OSHA has issued the fewest significant standards in its history, public health experts say. It has imposed only one major safety rule. The only significant health standard it issued was ordered by a federal court.
The agency has killed dozens of existing and proposed regulations and delayed adopting others. For example, OSHA has repeatedly identified silica dust, which can cause lung cancer, and construction site noise as health hazards that warrant new safeguards for nearly three million workers, but it has yet to require them.
As they say, read the whole thing. I guess workers are just interchangeable parts/cogs. When one breaks, you just get another. Hey, this will keep unemployment down: injured workers don't count in surveys of employment, right?
It may be my selective memory, or the brain cells I've killed in the meantime, but I don't remember Reagan or the first Bush to be this relentlessly awful in terms of policy.
Posted by baltar at April 25, 2007 08:50 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Corruption | Politics | Shine the Light on ItWell there's a reason that a lot of people ask "Worst president ever?". And no, I don't think the president's father was THIS bad on policy. I know less about Reagan (or at the moment I remember less of what I've read).
Posted by: Armand at April 25, 2007 11:39 AM | PERMALINKYou know, I've had a half-written post comparing Bush to Wilson sitting around forever. Since reading The Great Influenza.
Posted by: binky at April 25, 2007 11:44 AM | PERMALINK