re: #944 iossarian
The MMS is very ineffective (and some would say corrupt) indeed. This is because there has been a process over the last 20-30 years, accelerated over the last 10 or so, of deregulating business and reducing the effectiveness of remaining regulation.
in short, your analogy was awful and out of respect for you, i will work to disassociate it with you as quickly as possible…