Here's What's Wrong In One Sentence

[HomerRamone]

http://www.workingforchange.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=ED25EB53-CA99-76D1-A25AF459A74C1587

Here's What's Wrong In One Sentence

by David Sirota

Every now and then, a politician lets slip a comment that shows us exactly what's wrong with our political system, and exactly how bought off our government really is. Today, it came from Maryland's governor, and he managed to boil it down into one sentence:

"(It is) bad policy because it...establishes that a state will dictate to businesses the type and level of health insurance they must provide for their employees."
- Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R) on a proposal to force Wal-Mart to provide bare minimum benefits to its workers

That's right - in our bought-and-paid-for political system, the idea of making Corporate America fulfill any minimum responsibility to our country, such as making sure workers at the wealthiest company on earth aren't on welfare, is off the table. This, in a country that supposedly cherishes "family values."

Sources:
MSNBC quoting Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R-MD):
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8333653/

[IbeaBonehead]

1. bingo!

Well said - excellent example.

All they care about is their ..

[SweetLeftFoot]

3. Hmmm ...

Looks like there's all of 20 bucks in that pic. Please try harder in future with images.

[bemildred]

2. I think "dictating to business" is great.

Who the fuck are they?

[yurbud]

5. he's used to business dictating to him

Hillbilly Hitler art:



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[NMMNG]

4. Oh, make me laugh.

The government cannot dictate to businesses the type and level of health insurance they will provide for their employees.

But the government can dictate the type and level of education a parent will subject their child to...

and what a woman can do with her body after a certain point in her pregnancy or if she is under a certain age...

and that two consenting adults cannot marry because they have the same genitals...

and whether or not a person can choose to end their life on their own terms or waste away tethered to machines for decades...

and that people of the "majority" religion can dictate morality for the rest of the nation...

etc, etc.




That is a crock of horse manure IMHO. :mad:

[wallwriter]

6. So we shouldn't dictate to business other things

like selling meat that is rotten or cars that catch on fire or medicines that kill kids...