
“There should be something sacrosanct about the playground. It should be off limits to regimentation and central dictate. And yet the simplified federal manual about every aspect of the playground is 60 pages long, every paragraph presuming that without such guidelines the rest of us would be completely clueless and uncaring about the well-being of children. Just think about it. Before the first guidelines were issued in 1981, playgrounds for the whole of human history existed in a state of terrifying anarchy. Since then, the federal government has been all over this sector of life. Each state has its own regulations, so they differ across state lines.”
http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-abolition-of-the-playground
Related posts:
More Americans support torture than Afghans, Iraqis and South Sudanese
Lawmakers travel the world on lobbyists’ dime
Google blocks video after losing Brazil court battle
Richest 400 Americans get richer
Police exercise left explosives in customer's airport rental car
'It's time to hold physical cash,' says British senior fund manager
Regulation Opens Door to FinTech Startup Opportunities
Parched Jordan to start pumping radium-laced water from 300,000-year-old aquifer
Am Law Lawyers Help Bring Bitcoin to the Masses
Police officer shoots unarmed man 41 times, reloading twice
Car bomb rocks Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon
China's brokers pledge to buy stocks to prop shaky markets
Treasury Secretary Lew: Jamie Dimon and I share ‘incredulity' on bitcoin
FBI: Driverless cars good for surveillance but could be deadly weapons
India: $1.2 million in gold bars found stashed in Boeing 737 bathroom