Remembering the Reaganistic vilification of government regulation.
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Rachel Maddow shows why government regulation is not always a bad thing. Click on the URL.
She is a fresh, new face to MSNBC but no neophyte to reporting on politics. Her show airs on MSNBC at 9 PM Eastern time.
Watch this tribute to Upton Sinclair and the short clip of the old 20 Mule Team Borax pitchman telling us "Government is not the solution....Government is the problem."
Yeah, Ronnie, WHY are we now being forced to revisit something eerily similar to YOUR 1980's Resolution Trust Corporation S&L nightmare right about now? Could it be the systematic DE-regulation Republicans forced down our throats for 14 of the last 18 years in Congress?
Where do you Republican morons stop with your harangues of "We're heading for Socialism"?
You morons would be PRIVATIZING the mailing of ordinary letters and we would be paying Fed-Ex or UPS $12 to deliver a birthday card to Aunt Susie. They only do better than the Post Office when they can cherry-pick what they deliver.
Watch the video and tell me you want Wendy's regulating how many fingers you can have in your chili.
I live in Texas where our Republican majority of politicians in the statehouse were "smart" enough to DEREGULATE electric power! We Texans pay an average of 12.5 cents per kilowatt hour while regulated Oklahoma companies still make a profit charging their customers less than 8 cents a kilowatt hour! It costs no more to generate electricity in Texas than it costs in Oklahoma. Cover your ears, Californians. Your power is in the 40 cent range!
Oh, and large consumers of electricity like ALL businesses in Texas get Texas electricity for 6 cents per kilowatt hour so when Wal-Mart has those big auto-open electric doors, not only are you subsidizing their bill for those but you are also paying for the air-conditioning and heating that is wasted when a family of five strolls through them.
Enjoy your freedom.
Well, at least all the freedom corporations are willing to give you under DEREGULATION.
Another link to the MSNBC story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/29561173#29561173
She is a fresh, new face to MSNBC but no neophyte to reporting on politics. Her show airs on MSNBC at 9 PM Eastern time.
Watch this tribute to Upton Sinclair and the short clip of the old 20 Mule Team Borax pitchman telling us "Government is not the solution....Government is the problem."
Yeah, Ronnie, WHY are we now being forced to revisit something eerily similar to YOUR 1980's Resolution Trust Corporation S&L nightmare right about now? Could it be the systematic DE-regulation Republicans forced down our throats for 14 of the last 18 years in Congress?
Where do you Republican morons stop with your harangues of "We're heading for Socialism"?
You morons would be PRIVATIZING the mailing of ordinary letters and we would be paying Fed-Ex or UPS $12 to deliver a birthday card to Aunt Susie. They only do better than the Post Office when they can cherry-pick what they deliver.
Watch the video and tell me you want Wendy's regulating how many fingers you can have in your chili.
I live in Texas where our Republican majority of politicians in the statehouse were "smart" enough to DEREGULATE electric power! We Texans pay an average of 12.5 cents per kilowatt hour while regulated Oklahoma companies still make a profit charging their customers less than 8 cents a kilowatt hour! It costs no more to generate electricity in Texas than it costs in Oklahoma. Cover your ears, Californians. Your power is in the 40 cent range!
Oh, and large consumers of electricity like ALL businesses in Texas get Texas electricity for 6 cents per kilowatt hour so when Wal-Mart has those big auto-open electric doors, not only are you subsidizing their bill for those but you are also paying for the air-conditioning and heating that is wasted when a family of five strolls through them.
Enjoy your freedom.
Well, at least all the freedom corporations are willing to give you under DEREGULATION.
Another link to the MSNBC story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/29561173#29561173
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tome_erau
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Great post.
Interesting side note: Guess what Teddy Roosevelt was eating the day he read "The Jungle"?
That's right, rat poo sausage.
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tome_erau
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carmalite
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I recall him calling people on Welfare "Welfare Queens," and his hatred of the homeless.
He started the rolling ball that resulted in what we have now. His idea of welfare was WELFARE KINGS and we have lots of them today because of the policies that he started.
The corporations really started leaving the USA when Reagan took office. Bush put the idea of NAFTA accross, and Republicans created the bill, and traitor to American workers, Bill Clinton, did not veto it.
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carmalite
