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Want More New Jobs?; Enforce EPA Regulations!
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Topic Started: Nov 15 2011, 01:34 AM (670 Views)
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Sea Dog
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Nov 18 2011, 01:34 AM
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- Nov 17 2011, 09:43 PM
"Well it is important to remember that right in countries like Sweden doesn't equate to right wing here in the US. The article you post claims the move to the right started in 1990."
Of course, they're still far to the left of us, paying as much as 60% in taxes. Not sure I would hold that up as a goal for us. Besides, however relative the more right is, it still shows them aboandoning socialism because it failed them. DO we need to repeat their mistakes? I can see why you do not want change.... When your present system is working so well.
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Chris
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Nov 18 2011, 03:29 AM
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- Sea Dog
- Nov 18 2011, 01:34 AM
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- Nov 17 2011, 09:43 PM
"Well it is important to remember that right in countries like Sweden doesn't equate to right wing here in the US. The article you post claims the move to the right started in 1990."
Of course, they're still far to the left of us, paying as much as 60% in taxes. Not sure I would hold that up as a goal for us. Besides, however relative the more right is, it still shows them aboandoning socialism because it failed them. DO we need to repeat their mistakes?
I can see why you do not want change.... When your present system is working so well. I want change, I want the US to stop heading in the direction that isn't working well and has failed Europe, social democracy, a euphemism for socialism.
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Nov 18 2011, 03:36 AM
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I want change also. A change from the supply side, deregulation path we have been on for at least a couple of decades. These policies are what have led us to where we are today, not the small attempts at reversal from Obama and the democrats over the last couple of years which have been for the most part obstructed anyway.
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Nov 18 2011, 07:04 AM
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I want change also. A change from the supply side, deregulation path we have been on for at least a couple of decades. These policies are what have led us to where we are today, not the small attempts at reversal from Obama and the democrats over the last couple of years which have been for the most part obstructed anyway. You man like the regulations that created the institutions and incentives for greedy banks and lenders? If man is by nature greedy, why encourage it? Regulate the regulator.
Crony Capitalism: The Inevitable Outcome Of Overreaching Government- Quote:
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Would a farmer who put out a trough of slop be surprised if it attracted a bunch of pigs? Then why are activists who promote enlarging the size and scope of government shocked when one program after another is hijacked by corporations that find it easier to seek favors in Washington than customers in the marketplace? And, knowing that such corruption is inevitable, why do mainstream media dismiss those who advocate curtailing government powers as corporate stooges?
What leads anyone to believe that unconstrained power can be channeled in ways that don’t favor the politically connected? And why are the politicians who repeatedly put out the slop troughs, then theatrically rail against the pigs, rarely penalized at the polls?
How long will people continue to believe the “too big to fail” fear-mongering propaganda which both parties use to justify squandering public funds to socialize losses and privatize gains? How many times does a court economist have to be wrong about the impact of expensive economic interventions before we add him to the unemployment rolls?
If protestors are angry that Wall Street interests control the government, why do they want to increase the government’s role in the economy rather than decrease it? What makes them think that banging on drums and spouting incoherent slogans is a more effective way to influence politicians than the proven practice of putting them on the payroll? What would happen to the flow of campaign contributions from crony capitalists if money could no longer buy legislative and regulatory favors? And why do anti-corporate activists keep fruitlessly trying to cut off the flow of money instead of working to ban the favors that attract it?
How does the failure to distinguish between honestly earning profits by meeting customers’ needs and getting rich by looting the public treasury make it possible to end the latter practice without destroying the former? And if we cannot define and promote a sustainable form of capitalism weaned from government corruption, where are all the jobs the nation needs supposed to come from?...
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