Are we Going back to the good old days?

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Easing of farming regulations could allow milk from TB-infected cattle into food chain
softer tests on the use of pesticides, fewer inspections of farms, and more weight to be placed on private sector inspectors for the food sector rather than publicly appointed monitors, as well as potential restrictions on rights of way for ramblers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/17/farming-regulation-tb-cattle-milk?CMP=twt_fd
 
Well I am going horsedrawn in a fortnights time as I head up to Kirby Stephen in Westmorland and the Eden River to meet up with many friends and relatives there. And cooking pheasant or rabbit on an open fire which has been caught by our own Lurchers the whole bit. Then it is bathing or 'baptism' of the horses in the river in Appleby town and on up to the fair for about a week. Good old days of yore a special time !
 
The so-called "good old days" (i.e., the 1950s that the right-wing uber-religious Republicans and teabagging evangelicals favor) were not all that "good" after all...so let's hope this is not the REGRESSIVE and RECESSIVE direction that this nation is headed for. Democrats (progressive thinkers) are in favor of the Constitutional duties assigned to a representative government such as ours here in the U.S., and this means CONSUMER-PROTECTING REGULATIONS and a system of CHECKS AND BALANCES should replace the Republican right-wingers' penchant for massive DEREGULATION that even former Fed Chairman and Republican Alan Greenspan has now admitted was a huge mistake: "I was WRONG to believe that they [banks, Wall Street, insurance industry, credit card companies, etc.] could or even would self-regulate" (Greenspan's sworn testimony before the Senate after the GOP's housing/credit markets' COLLAPSE and the FINANCIAL SYSTEM MELTDOWN.

Rational moderation is what the American people want---enough regulations (oversight, checks and balances, consumer protections) to keep us safe, but not too much that would interfere with our Constitutional freedoms. As for the UK, one would think the people would be of like mind.
 
The so-called "good old days" (i.e., the 1950s that the right-wing uber-religious Republicans and teabagging evangelicals favor) were not all that "good" after all...so let's hope this is not the REGRESSIVE and RECESSIVE direction that this nation is headed for. Democrats (progressive thinkers) are in favor of the Constitutional duties assigned to a representative government such as ours here in the U.S., and this means CONSUMER-PROTECTING REGULATIONS and a system of CHECKS AND BALANCES should replace the Republican right-wingers' penchant for massive DEREGULATION that even former Fed Chairman and Republican Alan Greenspan has now admitted was a huge mistake: "I was WRONG to believe that they [banks, Wall Street, insurance industry, credit card companies, etc.] could or even would self-regulate" (Greenspan's sworn testimony before the Senate after the GOP's housing/credit markets' COLLAPSE and the FINANCIAL SYSTEM MELTDOWN.

Rational moderation is what the American people want---enough regulations (oversight, checks and balances, consumer protections) to keep us safe, but not too much that would interfere with our Constitutional freedoms. As for the UK, one would think the people would be of like mind.
 
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