G.O.P. Asks Businesses Which Rules to Rewrite ???

[ShockediSay]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/business/economy/05letters.html


Companies spend millions of dollars each year complaining to Congress about burdensome laws and regulations, pressing their concerns in public campaigns and in private meetings. They rarely wait for invitations.

Last month a senior House Republican, Representative Darrell Issa of California, nevertheless dispatched letters to 150 companies, trade groups and research organizations asking them to identify federal regulations that are restraining economic recovery and job growth.


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So who do they represent?
Top 2%ers or 98% of the rest of us?

They flex their talking points about "What the American People Want"
Short answer Top 2% of what the American people want
AND top 2%ers pocketed most of their money over the past 10 yrs
AND number of jobs they created in last 10 yrs? Ans: Global Recession
w/ all their profit in their pockets

[OHdem10]

1. The Merger of Business and Government equals Fascism.

Benito Mussolini said we should call it Corpartism.

[ShockediSay]

5. Agreed. AND in the Weimar Republic take a look@ theArms of Krupp

BUT elements of Fascism also include

Control of the Media

Provacative Propaganda

Scapegoating oftentimes

Right Wingers

so where do you think we are now?

[doc03]

2. Five hours after taking his oath Ohio Governor John Kasich

signed his Common Sense Initiative (in short what it does is give business a free hand in writing their own regulations.

[Abq_Sarah]

3. It would be helpful if they would

Ask small businesspeople to estimate the results, both positive and negative, to proposed legislation. Far too often, legislation helps the "big boys" by tamping down competition.

The idea that "well tell them what to do and they'll just have to fucking take it" may be gratifying in the short term but it does have real world consequences.

[ShockediSay]

6. I don't know what % but a number of these small business people

are super millionaires into 'no taxes, no regulation, no big government.'

[Hoopla Phil]

4. It's prolly a good idea to get input from all the business that got wavers from this administration.

They may have some real world perspective that the legislatures were lacking when drafting this law.