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 On 24 Oct 2004 19:07:20 -0700, hlillywh@juno.com (Hal Lillywhite) 
 wrote: 
  
 >I think that is the wrong question.  The real question is, "How many 
 >lives are we willing to lose to allow overregulation and a hyperactive 
 >legal profession to make sure prices are held down and companies 
 >exposed to large and often unfair legal awards? 
  
  
 Given the deregulation of the last 25 years and the results in the S&L 
 crisis, the tech bubble, the merger mania, the Enron scandal and the 
 rest, and the brokerage scandals and the insurance scandals, etc., 
 etc. -  you want to speak of over regulation? 
  
 You might also try to rationalize why our "over regulated, over 
 litigious" society still out performs all others. Could it be there's 
 actually a cause and effect there? 
  
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