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The collapse of the government paradigm
...However, because government has no delegated power to intervene in such matters, we certainly should get rid of federal regulations that allow an outfit such as the UAW to effectively bankrupt an outfit such as General Motors -- and especially wacky, unconstitutional "bailout" interventions like the one that kept GM from shedding its unsustainable union contracts in bankruptcy. Barring such federal tilting of the playing field, trade unions can rarely coerce disastrous financial concessions unless the workers have a true monopoly on rare skills -- like professional athletes.

Why aren't National Football League players protected by OSHA, by the way? There must be some kind of an exemption, or the OSHA inspectors would surely look at knee-injury and concussion statistics and require the game be changed to two-hand touch, forthwith.

At the same time businesses can be fined for failing to label piles of sand as "hazardous materials" (not making that up), who else is exempt, and why? How precisely does OSHA help those who work in our most deadly professions, including deep sea fishing, cab driving and hard-rock mining? Has OSHA been successful in requiring employers to allow cabdrivers to carry handguns for self-defense? Why not? Federal regulations overrule local ordinances, don't they? Check your 14th Amendment, enacted specifically to stop the states from disarming the poor....