Powells's Endorsement of Obama

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bigjon said:

akuma587 said:
Its strange to me that many of the conservative VGChartz members are advocates of oversight when oversight actually requires the government to spend more money than regulation does. I am not saying that they don't have a point, I just find it kind of ironic that they are advocating more government positions.

I am not a republican, I am a fiscal conservative, therefore I usually vote for them. I am voting for my major and congressman who are democrats. The are fiscally sound however.

It is more about freedom. Regulation hampers economic freedom and stifles growth.

As far as safety regulations, many of them are annoying, and many are common sense.

Regulation cost more, it also requires oversight to implement the regulation.

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But are you against safety regulations?  They're only "common sense" if you want to protect the health and safety of people.  For many companies, if their cost/benefit analysis says that the protections will cost more than the hurt people, then they won't do it.  This happened in many places before the regulations were imposed.  In fact, that's almost always the REASON they get imposed.  

By the way, he didn't say anything about republicans in that post, only conservatives.  Methinks thou doth protest too much.