steven787 said:
This is the confusion people often have. This isn't government regulating your life. This is government regulating things that effect your life that you wouldn't have any control over. Like Bush has already done to the inspection of food, regulation of the sale of drugs, the testing of contaminants and poisons in products like toys, banking supervision, the security of our airports and seaports, and now he wants to extend that to everything else. Saying " the less the government regulates our lives, the better", when we are talking about government regulation for health, safety, or security of finances demonstrates a lack of understanding. Regulating the manufacture, shipment, and sale of items or products that we can not control as individual citizens is not a bad thing. It's actually understood in capitalism, that to have a free market you need to have equal information. The government has the duty to make sure these things are safe because if they are not you'll find out after you're already sick or dead. Of course all the genius amateur-free market-economists on the internet would not know that, because they've never tried to actually learn about it. BTW, on an aside: When does a republican stay out of your life? Guns and... guns and... If they had had their way over the past 50 years, blacks still would barely be able to vote, discrimination for race, gender, age, and disability would still be a-OK, your boss would still be able to sexually harass you, and injustice would be even more rampant than it is today. If you're gay, they don't want you to have rights. If your young or black, they don't want you to vote. If your skin is brown, they don't want you to immigrate. If you don't believe in their god, they want to kick you out of school. If you get injured while doing something heroic, they send you a medical bill. They tap your phone and arrest you with out due process, in the name of the public good. |
No, the Republicans would never enact regulations or keep regulations in place that hurt people...that's just a lie!
Women have breasts an ass for one reason, to please me. Why should we allow them to sue for sexual harassment. It used to be you could pressure any woman in the work place into sex or threaten that she would lose her job. Those were the good ol' days...
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
