Whenever I think of the cult of safety, I am always reminded of your state’s Proposition 13, the Orwellian-named Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act. It deserves some credit, I suppose for helping clean up onerous chemicals in water, but it also created the sign-making industry, thus those ubiquitous warning signs everywhere from hotel meeting rooms to salad bar restaurants. It has also helped raise the price of food and beverages while simultaneously creating a cottage industry for legal bounty hunters.
Whenever I think of the cult of safety, I am always reminded of your state’s Proposition 13, the Orwellian-named Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act. It deserves some credit, I suppose for helping clean up onerous chemicals in water, but it also created the sign-making industry, thus those ubiquitous warning signs everywhere from hotel meeting rooms to salad bar restaurants. It has also helped raise the price of food and beverages while simultaneously creating a cottage industry for legal bounty hunters.