How would you feel if anybody were able to set themselves up in business as a CPA (Chartered Public Accountant), or as a doctor, or lawyer? In all western nations these professions are regulated, and require compulsory qualification and membership of statutory professional organisations.
Imagine, a doctor who has no "qualification" other than 15 years experience taking responsibility for a surgical operation...
DO you agree that all of these professions should also be deregulated? Why not?
Probligo, I'll tell Debbie Riddle she just found another person who would vote for her.
It will be like everything else. It will be who you know or you won't be able to get a licence.
People wbing what they are will no be so ready to just give out signatures so that a person can take the state board tests and it will be like the boss I worked for in GA. He signed a ticket for a guy he knew but also knew was a jack leg. After the guy left I alked him about it. He said the guy will just meak me look good.
I ended up working with the guy a few years later and I akde him why if he had a masters liscence wasn't he out there on his own. I heard some story about how he was bankrupt and had gotten run out of a city.......Hmmmm. I wonder why? Sooo I asked. He said that a guy owed him $35,000.00 dollars for a job and wouldn't pay him. I know of only one reason for that (2 actually) the installed units were not working or he did the work for a crook. Either one was bad judgment on his part.
I imagine you can fill in the blanks from here.
In my opinion liscensing does not really work.
I have also had another epiphanaic echo. We are piling law upon law to control the mischief of the people and yet the crooks and less than honorable continue to prosper.....
It all feeds my stance that with out righteousness in the people we are less free not more so.
In this (so called) free republic if the people will not control themselves then it is in danger of falling and what a mighty sound that would make.
Ron, You said a mouthful with, "It all feeds my stance that with out righteousness in the people we are less free not more so." The more they write rules and regulation to govern the less freedom and liberty.
And if this republic falls what of the rest of Democracy through out the world. The U.S. Has been the hope of all peoples.
Medicine totally deregulated? Sell the idea to your neighbours. That would certainly solve the health system problems.
Accountants and finance totally deregulated? Sell that to your neighbours. No one would pay taxes for sure. No one would make money from investments either. But there would be some very rich NYers living in Nigeria. That would certainly solve the banking system.
Lawyers totally deregulated? Why have a justice system. You wouldn't need JOCUS ("jokers" Geddit?) either. Got an argument with someone? Solve it with a gun instead!
SO you would be happy with a convicted car thief cutting a new key for your front door? Well, no, I realise that you would do it yourself and probably the idea goes right over your head.
Sorry - typo - JOSCUS in place of JOCUS...
Medicine unregulated. Hmmm. In the U.S. Medicine was previously mostly unregulated prior to the 70's. We had to lowest mortality rate and highest lifespan of any other nation. Now with near hyper regulation we have one of the worst in the western world.
Probligo. Nearly every area that we look at in relation to why is there apparently so much to do in the U.S. concerning the move to a much more involved government is mostly due to the media trying to make a buck by selling tradegy. The problen with that is bad people would very much like to micro-manage lives not for good but for a buck. No other reason.
That is the only probable reason why nationalizing hospitals has not arisen in public(snort;I originally mispelled this pubic) debate. In my mind that would be the least expensive method of giving health care. Note; I do not think that there should be a nationalizing of DR's or clinics. Over all I am a little ambivelant either way. Never-the-less.
The reason for not nationalizing all hospitals and the non debate is because of political pull, and moola.
This whole thing breaks down to momey,money,money.....only. Who is making more and who has more behind the scenes pull(payola).
Probligo, I know how much you enjoy playing the Devil's advocate; however, of late your expressions would lead me to believe you've been playing the fool. If you're going to be taken seriously in the comment section you might try avoiding the extreme ends of the spectrum.
I was thinking of the rationale behind being a professional accountant with all of the duties and responsibilities that entails when I was writing my reductio ad absurdum comment, TF. It is not a case of "playing the fool" at all. It is taking the consistent application of your reasoning (such as your arguments against registration of locksmiths) to their illogical extreme in order to show the overall ramifications of the conclusion (see my footnote below).
As a retired policeman I would guess that you would know, even better than I, the consequences of having a person whose idea of other people's property goes no further than "I wanna, I takey" trading in the noble profession of key cutting and locksmithing. But then I guess that taking the challenge out of their true following could result in them complaining about unfair competition and compulsory registration as well.
Footnote -
I believe that in the US the common useage of the word "moot" has evolved to meaning "of little value". I am a traditionalist still, and "moot" means "the subject of discussion or debate". While on the subject of grammar "... a person whose idea of other people's property goes no further than "I wanna, I takey"..." is a noun clause.
Congrats on the magazine cover. Hope it makes a difference and beats back the nannying bastards.
MK, I have little real hope of turning back time; but I will continue to work with the Institute of Justice folks on this.
Probligo, I'd have to ask at what point you consider a field so critical as to require puppet masters, are there any fields which you consider outside the need for puppet masters or is everyone eventually to pay the price, in advance, for the right to work?
Before you answer, consider this a challenge to be taken up on your own blog as I have grown weary of the answers supplied here in the comment section.
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