232 Protections House Republicans Think You Don't Deserve

[kitler53]

mrstickball said:

kitler53 said:

i'll assume you didn't actually read any of the 232 regulations up for revoking because there is nothing in there that would lead to that conclusion.  i don't think even 1 of those regulations is applied to a citizen,.. it is applied to how government and buisiness act.

so the real statment is,

"in other words, business don't need to be responsible for anything but profiting now."

 

i'll never understand why conservatives want to push things for far in the direction of "self responsibility" anyways.  i always thought the american dream was the idea that with hard work and persistance you can success in this word.  a "merit" based evaluation.  the economy conservatives keep pushing has none of that,.. children are simply benefitiaries or victims of the status they were born into.  

sounds like a horrible place to live to me.

Have you tried running a small business in the United States to make that argument? Or been in a situation where you've tried to make a life for yourself, and the government has done more harm than good? There's a reason that conservatives push for smaller government for both the populace and business.

have you been born into extreem poverty in the United States to make your argument?  Or been in a situation where your only hope for a full belly is free school lunch and food stamps or your only hope for bettering yourself is public schools?  There's a reason that liberals push for social services that so that all citizens have at least some hope of opportunity.

 

and as lafiel stated,.. conservatives would be more than happy to regulate things like definition of marriage to ensure only their very narrow view of what it means to be an "american" can have access to the protections marriage provides a family.

 

the war on drugs was and continues to be a tool for discrimination.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/2016/03/top-adviser-richard-nixon-admitted-war-drugs-was-policy-tool-go-after-anti-war-proteste

 

the obvious flaw in conservative thought is that the world is fair and merit based outcomes is how the populace is rewarded or punished.  it's a nice ideal that i wish were true but it isn't.