Actually, Richard, we are vastly under-regulated and vastly over-"ruled"...

The current social climate in the United States is quite uncomfy in many opf our neigborhoods... Especially in our suburbs where everywhere you look there are little power hungry people who seize control of their local home ownersassociations or board of supervisotrs and ram lots of dumbass stuff down their neighbors throats...

On the other hand, when it comes to some real common sense things where regulation is needed, these same folks have a wild west mentality... Think utilities, 'er health care here...

Bobert