What will happen if we do what Repubs want and Deregulate Business'

[Sallow]

Deregulating businesses means you have to trust them to do the right thing. It's like leaving your house and car unlocked, out of trust.

Actually you don't have to trust them, you just have to allow consumers to chose who to do business with. And that's why your government solution is failure out of the gate. They start by removing choice and then you really do have to trust them, and the only thing you can trust politicians to do is screw you. And screw you they do.

Like that's worked out so well in the past...

 

[Oddball]

Sure, monopolies are going to give you a choice.

RAAARRR!

The Robber Barons got rich exploiting rights-of-way and mineral rights granted to them by the biggest monopoly if them all: Gubmint.

Fool fail.

 

[Sallow]

Besides worker abuse and tearing up the environment around these business'? Something has to be good and pretty dam honorable to be left alone and trusted to do the right thing, but business is not about doing the right thing, its about doing the profitable thing.

Not saying all regulations are a good thing, but hell, are we supposed to drop regulations and hope / pray that corporations will treat our land and workers the way society wants them too.

Now Thats a faith based ideology if there ever was one.

Of course we are, just like the financial part of our country that we got rid of so much regulation on, did.

Greed is a very powerful thing isn't it? Can anyone really imagine what our environment would be like if there were no LAWS to protect us? Or what employment would be like without OSHA?

Can WE imagine what this Republic would be like if Government didn't intrude with the free market? Could we imagine what it would be like if Liberty of the individual was practiced without the whiners that can't GRASP the concept for their poor choices?

You don't have to "imagine" it. Go to a third world country..like Thailand. See how much you like it.

 

[The T]

Of course we are, just like the financial part of our country that we got rid of so much regulation on, did.

Greed is a very powerful thing isn't it? Can anyone really imagine what our environment would be like if there were no LAWS to protect us? Or what employment would be like without OSHA?

Can WE imagine what this Republic would be like if Government didn't intrude with the free market? Could we imagine what it would be like if Liberty of the individual was practiced without the whiners that can't GRASP the concept for their poor choices?

You don't have to "imagine" it. Go to a third world country..like Thailand. See how much you like it.

I've been to such places...perhaps it is YOU that needs to go get yer ass outta the CONUS...it will give you some real fucking perspective.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Man, it seems like "freedom and liberty" is the answer to everything.

Labor? Freedom
Food saftey? Freedom
Environmental protection? Freedom

 

[impalero]

Deregulating businesses means you have to trust them to do the right thing. It's like leaving your house and car unlocked, out of trust.

Actually you don't have to trust them, you just have to allow consumers to chose who to do business with. And that's why your government solution is failure out of the gate. They start by removing choice and then you really do have to trust them, and the only thing you can trust politicians to do is screw you. And screw you they do.

Consumers choose based on if they can afford it just as business run based on profits.
They care not if Jose is working 14 hours a day for 50 cents a day making shoes, nor do business care.
It's always about the money.

 

[Stephanie]

If in this day and age if someone works for 50 cents a day, then they are the IDIOT. not the company.

 

[impalero]

Then we don't need ingredient labels on foods, and inspections, because if enough people die from a bad product,

people won't patronize that business?

lol

HOW EVER did we survive before idiotic Gubmint mandated LABELS?

no kidding, it seems some ALWAYS needs a Nanny.

Yea, lets get rid of it all.

Including the military as well.

We don't need no stinkin nanny babysitting for us throughout the world.

Big Business does not need a nanny to protect them. Let them fend for themselves.

 

[Stephanie]

HOW EVER did we survive before idiotic Gubmint mandated LABELS?

no kidding, it seems some ALWAYS needs a Nanny.

Yea, lets get rid of it all.

Including the military as well.

We don't need no stinkin nanny babysitting for us throughout the world.

Big Business does not need a nanny to protect them. Let them fend for themselves.

Sorry little dramatic one, but THE MILITARY is the ONE DUTY of the Guberment.
Not outlawing smoking in Parks, telling us what light bulbs we are suppose to use and on and on and on.

 

[impalero]

no kidding, it seems some ALWAYS needs a Nanny.

Yea, lets get rid of it all.

Including the military as well.

We don't need no stinkin nanny babysitting for us throughout the world.

Big Business does not need a nanny to protect them. Let them fend for themselves.

Sorry little dramatic one, but THE MILITARY is the ONE DUTY of the Guberment.
Not outlawing smoking in Parks, telling us what light bulbs we are suppose to use and on and on and on.

Nope, big business needs to fend for themselves. Otherwise thats socialism for their business dealings.

The government is supposed to provide for protection of the country.

Fine, beef up the National Guard for border protection only.

Not with 700 bases around the world which is essentially socialism for the rich via financial and economic stability.

I don't want my TAX dollars paying to babysit them on their multinational affairs.

Let them pay for it themselves.
The Gravy train ends here.

THATS MY MONEY!!

Pretty soon they run out of other peoples money to spend when you have 700+ bases around the world, plus 3 wars going on.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Food saftey isn't the responsibilty of govt?

 

[rnorris4]

Businesses aren't in business to loose money. Businesses have taken a bum rap in the US and to our detriment. Scenes of the American landscape featured tradition smoke stack industries post WWII and through the 50's and 60's. Then all of sudden the government got the idea that industries didn't need all that money they were putting back into their businesses. So state and local governments and the federal government started taxing them and regulating them out of existence. Today in most US cities what do you see on the land scape? Old rotten shells of what used to be a "profitable" business. A once great city Detroit is a great example of how government destroyed a once prosperous city. Now thanks to government all US cities are at risk of going the way of Detroit unless you and people like you wake TFU! I'll make it easy for you to understand. If you start your own business and grow it to the point where you need skilled workers the only way you'll ever be able to hire new workers and grow your business is for government to leave business alone. Start screwing with profits and soon people don't get hired. Next people get laid off. Worse still your business goes belly up. Profit is necessary for businesses to stay in business, because unlike the government, who taxes and regulates them into extinction, businesses can't print money to keep people employed. The well runs dry eventually.

 

[percysunshine]

Food saftey isn't the responsibilty of govt?

Your mother is responsible for feeding you.

Open wide and take that spoon of Gerber pea mush with a smile on your face.

 

[theHawk]

Besides worker abuse and tearing up the environment around these business'? Something has to be good and pretty dam honorable to be left alone and trusted to do the right thing, but business is not about doing the right thing, its about doing the profitable thing.

Not saying all regulations are a good thing, but hell, are we supposed to drop regulations and hope / pray that corporations will treat our land and workers the way society wants them too.

Now Thats a faith based ideology if there ever was one.

Well nice strawman arguement. I have never heard that Repubs want to "deregulate" everything when it comes to business, whatever that means.

There are certainly some pretty stupid laws that aren't good for business, and some things that are legal that shouldn't be.

I honestly believe its ok to have labar and environmental laws to have our companies abide by, however when we freely import goods from overseas from countries and companies that don't abide by those same rules then there is a great imbalance and puts our companies at a big disadvantage. The end result of that is that we are actually paying other countries to destroy the environment and treat their workers like shit. If we're going to have "fairness" as our President likes to say, then we should put tariffs on imported goods from countries that don't have equal labor/environment standards. The only other alternative is to "deregulate" as you put it in order to give us a chance to compete in the global market.

 

[JFK_USA]

Deregulating businesses means you have to trust them to do the right thing. It's like leaving your house and car unlockedand running in South Central LA, out of trust.

FIFY

Businesses would destroy this country if it meant more profit.

 

[edthecynic]

RAAARRR!

The Robber Barons got rich exploiting rights-of-way and mineral rights granted to them by the biggest monopoly if them all: Gubmint.

Fool fail.

Pure bullshit as usual.

 

[hortysir]

With the stroke of a pen, Bill Clinton ended an era that stretched back to William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson and reached fruition with FDR and Harry Truman. As he signed his name, in the whorls and dots of his pen strokes William Jefferson Clinton was also symbolically signing the death warrant of Liberal America and its core belief in the level playing field that had guided the Democratic Party

Progressive Historians: History For Our Future

If you think of this graph as the level playing field, notice how flat it was before Bill Clinton repealed Glass-Steagall, then notice how steep it has become. Those subprime loans amount to nothing more than an organized ripoff of millions of innocent Americans, with the steepness of the graph illustrating the how far the playing field has tilted.

 

[Zander]

Puppy drownings would become commonplace. Anal rape of random employees by management would be a daily ritual. Cattle prods would be used to keep the sheeple in line if they complained. It would be an abysmal degrading horrorshow where the poor innocent employees would be treated like the scum that they really are. Classical music, a bit of the "ulta violence", and Bars that serve drugged milk would become very popular though.....

 

[hortysir]

Another trip to left field.......

No middle ground.

Humans can't be trusted to make moral decisions without government control

 

[edthecynic]

With the stroke of a pen, Bill Clinton ended an era that stretched back to William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson and reached fruition with FDR and Harry Truman. As he signed his name, in the whorls and dots of his pen strokes William Jefferson Clinton was also symbolically signing the death warrant of Liberal America and its core belief in the level playing field that had guided the Democratic Party

Progressive Historians: History For Our Future

If you think of this graph as the level playing field, notice how flat it was before Bill Clinton repealed Glass-Steagall, then notice how steep it has become. Those subprime loans amount to nothing more than an organized ripoff of millions of innocent Americans, with the steepness of the graph illustrating the how far the playing field has tilted.

While a little higher, the subprime loans didn't spike until 2003 and Clinton was not president in 2003.

So what happened in 2003? Bush signed his American Dream Downpayment Initiative bill (ADDI) in 2003 that made no down payment loans for more than the value of the house to people with bad credit who couldn't make the payments as the centerpiece of his 2004 election campaign, so it must be Clinton's fault.