Re; anger - We need to make sure OUR COSTS are INCLUDED in the so called COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS on MOLD.. They aren't

[Guest guest]

The problem, as I see it, is that our society is changing and private

citizens like ourselves have less and less power, relative to what we had

ten or twenty years ago. This is because of the declining need for workers

in industry. Our power is basically our vote (whch is dependent on our

having homes), our voices (which is dependent on our being well enough to

and willing to speak, openly, knowing the risks of being attacked, like

Sharon was), and our buying power - or power to not buy as well (which

shrinks when you don't have any money - because you would not stop buying

something you could not buy in the first place)

No longer do we have the power to strike, because after fourty years of

organized " deskilling " industry does not depend on skilled workers like it

used to.

But, we do have power in that in making decisions on things like mold,

government is supposed to rely on cost-benefit analysis. But the cost

benefit analysis are wildly inaccurate because OUR costs are not being

considered at all.

What we need to do is to show that the market mechanisms that should deter

people from destroying our health ARE BROKEN and that the COSTS TO US ARE

ASTRONOMICAL..

If we can show that THE COSTS TO US ARE ASTRONOMICAL AND NEED TO BE FIGURED

IN TO THE COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS, we are halfway there..

Until we do that, we won't be.