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- From: paul@hsh.com
- Newsgroups: nj.politics
- Subject: Regulators Vow: Don't Let 'Zealots' Control
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.120937.279@hsh.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:09:37 GMT
- Organization: HSH Associates
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- It seems that NJ's recession is spurring some re-thinking of cherished
- ideological beliefs among the state's regulatory agencies.
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- The (Newark) Star-Ledger reported on Nov. 19 that "NJ's labor and environmental
- commissioners pledged to work with industry and the 'regulated community' to
- prevent both pollution and the loss of jobs resulting from unnecessary
- over-regulation."
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- State Labor Commissioner Raymond Bramucci -- who, it must be noted, was a labor
- leader before taking this post -- criticized "anti-growth zealots" for failing
- to balance environmental and economic interests over the past decade.
-
- "NJ has lost more than 200,000 good-paying manufacturing jobs between 1981 and
- 1991 because of increasing regulations not based on common sense," he said.
- "What we've become in New Jersey are experts in how to fill out government
- forms and endless paperwork."
-
- Bramucci stated [quoting the story] 'case after case of companies being heavily
- fined for reasons over which they have no control, such as power outages that
- disrupt their pollution control equipment, causing a momentary release of
- pollutants into the air.' [Sound familiar?]
-
- "A car hits a utility pole and the electricity is cut off, and the company is
- fined $50,000 because its pollution controls weren't working," Bramucci
- explained. "We must give employers a chance to be reasonable obeyers of the
- law. Our government must work with them, not against them."
-
- "Don't allow the zealots to control our economic-environmental agenda,"
- Bramucci declared. "We must begin to make decisions based on common sense and
- reason... if people do not have jobs, democracy cannot flourish."
-
- Is that heresy, or what? :-)
-
- (I like that last bit enough that I may just incorporate it into my sig.)
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