We heard for a number of years (8 to be exact) that the government doesn't need to regulate corporations. Let them police themselves because the market will prevail. Corporations won't want to mess up because it will cost them dollars. I think anyone who thought about that idea for more than six seconds realized its idiocy. In light of the BP fiasco, there are all sorts of calls for controlling companies again (even from Florida who seems to screw up every election).