[lbo-talk] Ralph on the recall

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Aug 13 09:31:27 PDT 2003


budge wrote:


>Do you have any examples of said agencies that haven't been
>captured? Former and future Big Energy executives and
>lobbyists run the FERC, insurance executives run the state
>insurance commissions (jeezus that is a mess in TX), and
>they're gonna appoint Daniel Pipes to the Institute for
>Peace!

What's the answer? Try to democratize the reg agencies, or give up on them and leave it to market forces and/or litigation?

Doug



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