3 May 2014 6:29 pm
Can't somebody just make the panels themselves? Don't people do that all the time? Does UL have a requirement to be involved? It becomes and issue when you try to sell stuff to others.Cannonpointer » 02 May 2014 10:35 pm » wrote:Instead of definitions, let's talk functions.
Look at the materials required to construct a solar panel.They cost about $200.00. Add a day's labor to that $200.00, and you've got yourself a solar panel. You could sell iffor $400.00, and you've got yourself a job. So, why isn't anyone doing it?We live in a free enterprise economy, do we not?
Not.
We live in a capitalist economy, which games the system to PREVENT free enterprise. You are not allowed to sell your solar panels without a stamp of approval from Underwriters Laboratories -and they are gate keepers for Wall Street.The cost of shaking hands with UL prevents free enterprisers from operating in that market -and the same thing is going on in almost every market. The little guy is locked out by the engineered and manipulated expense of sitting at the table - locked out. Only Wall Streeters, using OTHER PEOPLES' capital, can afford to play in the game.
We need to go back to a free enterprise economy, where the little guy does not face unsurmountable obstacles to starting a small business.
The taxes incurred are first and foremost.
The guise for other restrictions has to be public safety.
Then comes the fraud and restitution, the crooked side.
The order listed is important only for the first item. Everything else is tied at a distant second. UL seems too cozy with the gov. and Wall St. after all these years.
Jus' sayin'
Please seat yourself.
I like the very things you hate.
I like the very things you hate.