I get a big kick out of the people who call for a return to the good old days of free enterprise and free markets, when the government didn't burden entrepreneurs with inconvenient regulations or interfere with capitalism in any way except to provide free land to ranchers and railroads, and employ the National Guard or army to quell labor disputes.
It's like the whole "Circle of Life" silliness in THE LION KING. It sounds great as long as you're the one on top. When you're the rabbit getting eaten alive by a leopard, all that philosophy sounds hollow.
We need laws and regulations to protect us from corporations. They object to environmental restrictions and child labor laws and tossing injured workers to the street because it means they only make 890 billion dollars a year rather than 891.
I like to point out that the so called lefty station NPR has a half hour each day fo finance news. How many hours a day do labor unions get? And when is the last time you saw a union made ad on tv? Does any one remember toys and crayons made in exotic Easton, Pa.? I do. Is there no room any more for small scale manufacturing?
Outsourcing has made sweat shops in Malaysia, the Phillipines, Taiwan etc much more profitable for corporations. When they say, "We create jobs," they don't mean HERE.
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We need laws and regulations to protect us from corporations. They object to environmental restrictions and child labor laws and tossing injured workers to the street because it means they only make 890 billion dollars a year rather than 891.
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