I just read about a dozen articles on various sites arguing over whether "deregulation" has been a good or bad thing, if it's been responsible for economic downturns or upturns or U-turns, etc. And in not a one of those articles did anyone pause to suggest that maybe, just maybe, the removal of certain regulations is a good thing and the retention of certain regulations is a bad thing. It's like we have to have the minimum number of laws or the maximum but we aren't allowed to pick and choose.