If the Federal government begins to regulate SCUBA diving, which will never happen, if you guys think it is expensive now, wait until the government starts running it. They will most likely require swimming skills, which will flunk 90% of the current population. And then divers will need a medical just like pilots. Then all gear will have to be certified which will require all sorts of hoops to jump through for manufactuers and a new agency to inspect and regulate the gear, license the divers, approve of the training curriculum. Of course you will have to demonstrate the skills for a government inspector and the instruction will be months long.
This is why democracy can only exist temporarily, ephemerally, until people no longer believe in anything, vote themselves other peoples money and decide they cannot regulate themselves and turn themselves over to the government. Which is why the human race is doomed to repeat a cycle of despotism, communism, fascism followed by revolution, followed by freedom of choice and democracy and the pursuit of happiness until yet again we have a leader come along who tells the people they do not deserve what they have earned, they did not even earn it and they should feel guilty for having had the gumption to get up off their aXX and make something of themselves and it begins again. Said as we yet again slide into despotism.
Yeah, let's have the government control SCUBA diving, LMAO. The freedoms we give away now do not belong to us, they belong to the future generations and were secured for us by the preceding generations.
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