It's a familiar two-step by now. But for those of you at home, let's review:
1. Problem: People dying needlessly in preventable industrial accidents.
2. Solution: Government proposes regulatory half-measures to prevent needless deaths.
3. Wingnut Randians scream Hitler Stalin Pol Pot Mao.
4. Government walks back regulatory half-measures.
5. ???
6. Freedom!
Nearly 20 percent of all serious grain bin accidents involve workers under the age of 20. Last year, the Labor Department proposed new regulations aimed at tightening protections for children doing farm work.---Baron VThe proposed federal regulations would have prohibited children under 18 from working in large commercial grain bins, silos or other enclosed spaces. But the Obama administration, sensitive to Republican charges that it was choking the economy with expensive regulations, pulled back the proposed rules this year in the face of furious farm-state objections.
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