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Right again, Mr. Chomsky. Then after the rubes have been softened up, enter the smarmy, two-faced Barack Obama, whose plan to save us from global warming is a such a hack job that it's hardly worth the industry shills (like the ones taking up so much space commenting here) to bother with. Like his gift to the insurance industry -- America's sad excuse for "universal health care" -- Obama's environmental "program" is just another load of pretty B.S. thrown up to cover his real agenda, which in this case is to hand over the keys to America's energy industry to people like Dick Cheney, whose hands might as well be guiding the marionette strings coming out of his back. The "president" really doesn't have a choice about pushing natural gas; he sold out to the oiligarchs while still a do-nothing Senator. But that doesn't mean the few of us who are awake and aware shouldn't scream at him about it and do everything in our dwindling power to make him and the rest of the gasoholic cabal wish they'd never been born. Indeed, part of what the moribund U.S. environmental movement needs -- and in particular the fractured and chronically outclassed anti-fracking movement -- is a significantly angrier soundtrack, not bogged down with insipid musical baggage from old, hippy-dippy environmental campaigns. Pete Seeger and his sweet, smiling ilk don't cut through all the background noise any more. With that in mind, here's a new American anthem guaranteed to stir the soul of any red-blooded environmentalist, as well as lure a few emotionally sensitive people over from the dark side. Feel free to use it. Scream your anger! soundcloud.com/biff-thuringer/to-america

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I agree with you mostly. I think the difference though, to use your homeless example, is that many people would not need to have a homeless person in their family to support social government programs that reduce poverty and homelessness.

For the Dick Cheneys and Rob Portmans of the world, it takes a son or daughter. That's a failure of empathy. You shouldn't need a homeless son or daughter or a gay son or daughter to support human rights.

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Who said wrong? It's interesting.>> ^doogle:

Conservative voters want conservative candidates. What's wrong with that?

@renatojj

Politicians don't have their hands all over businesses, it's the opposite. Businesses have their hands in the strings that direct the politicians. Which means politicians are not serving society, but serving businesses. There are many examples of things happening that you know are wrong and can see are wrong, but nothing ever happens...why? Because businesses are either making money on them or mitigating money loss by it happening.

Look at nuclear power regulations, they have been loosened and the inspectors are actually limited in what they can inspect so much so that they don't actually see more than 5 or 10% of the workings of a nuclear plant. How can they say something is safe if they see less than 10% of it and those 10% don't even allow them to do tests they used to do?

Oil company regulation, why did the BP oil spill happen? It was because they are not held to standards damn near every other country on the planet holds them to. And when you see more into it, many times the oil inspection agents were going to work for the oil company when they retired. And yet they rarely busted their balls on questionable things and got caught with their pants down many times with not catching violations.....so they probably weren't hired for their inside knowledge on how to best keep the existing equipment up to standards....since they aren't being held to them.


And as for the last post you made...you can't just drop regulation on all of these things. There's countless reasons for it but I'll try to list a few.

1) They basically hold a monopoly in many industries or a small number of very large companies that end up basically being a monopoly, so there would be no counter balance of a free market because the market has never been free to begin with. If it were truly free there'd be 100/1000/10000/100k/1mil businesses in these industries all competing on either features or price because they should all be about as reliable as one another...since we always have to picture the "perfect" free market. I'll bet you can name a couple people who have shit internet service pretty easy or pay a lot for very little.

2) You are putting the policing of industries in the industry hands if you dial back regulation. They already can not regulate themselves. How many companies supported SOPA and now how many more support CISPA? They do what's best for them and they do it cooperatively not independently. That's why you have groups formed of these companies putting bills forward that are basically passed nearly word for word if edited at all by congress critters.

3) We hear all the time about businesses only responsibility is to make money. We don't even hold a person to that standard, an individual has more responsibilities than that...earning a living is probably in the top ten but it's not your sole major responsibility as a member of society. Number 1 could arguably be "obey the law" or "don't be a dick". Business number 1 should probably be don't negatively impact people as your business model....this could be not polluting, keeping a safe work environment, not overworking people, making underhanded deals in the name of profit, making deals you know you will back out of or have no intention to honor, etc. Yes shit happens, but you shouldn't make your business model based on making shit happen to profit. Banks and financial institutes arguably did this with bad mortgages and false rating of these mortgages when selling them.

@messenger

It's not just bribing politicians, but businesses openly courting people for employment after their term of service or the people regulating them. It makes it more profitable to be lenient and not enforce regulations or laws on companies when you'll be making 3x your salary when you go to work for them after kissing their ass for a decade or two. Both the bribes and the business tie ins with Haliburton made the early days of the current war seem pretty shady when you look specifically at Dick Cheney. But it happens with advisors to people in office as well, it's something that really should be stopped because government should be about public service and not service with the intention of landing a sweet gig at some company you helped make a few billion dollars for awhile a public servant.

You can't stop it entirely, but there should definitely be some lawful punishments put in place to make it have to cost the companies exorbitant amounts to court people to court them with the severe punishments placed on people who stray too far from the path. Like prison terms or fines to the tune of percentages of their life savings and 25% of a company's value if they are caught. Unfortunately, the people who would put forth these laws are the same people who would be directly affected by them....because they are all business owners anymore...it costs too much money to get into office and rich people are the only people who tend to have the wealth/power to pull it off.

So......regulations on companies it the best you can hope for, make it so politicians can't offer them anything worth the huge donations they make to these people because regulations would make the attempts worthless, unless of course it was deregulation. Which they've already done and continue to do, to the detriment of all. Profits are up for all the big companies sometimes higher than pre-crash, and yet they employ less people than they did 5 years ago. How are they pulling THAT off....they are cutting corners or doing something shady somewhere to keep earning like that despite being less capable of producing like they did prior when a lot more people had disposable income.

Meanwhile from the news crawl:

"Dick Cheney released from hospital" (TRAILER HOMES DESTROYED!)
"Same-sex couples file suit against Defense of Marriage act" (RVs RIPPED APART!)
"Image of NYC terror threat prompts probe" (YOU CAN SEE THE ROTATION!)
"Most police track phones' locations without warrants" (NO TRACTORS ATTACHED TO THEM!)
"World Trade Centre nears landmark height, reaches 100 floors" (SMALLISH TORNADO!)
"Urban archeologist uncover history beneath streets" (JUST PICKED THOSE THINGS UP!)
"Police: California shooting suspect shows no remorse" (NOTHING TO GET IN THEIR WAY!)
"New York plans to ban words from standardized tests" (15,000 POUNDS EMPTY!)
"Critics: NYPD's 'stop, question and frisk' policy is racial profiling" (IMAGINE THE POTENTIAL!)
"Analysis of video, audio could support both sides of Martin case" (KNOCKING ON DOORS!)
"Body of missing barista believed found in Alaska" (LOOK AT THOSE CARS!)

So I click play and see all hell breaking loose....and notice the news ticker at the bottom "BREAKING NEWS: Dick Cheney Released From Hospital".

Coincidence?

Nope.

I really can't wait till the whole facts are out for this case. Because it me it seems like either the facts keep changing OR everyone is injecting their own spin into this. Unfortunately as this seems to be growing more and more convoluted and with more and more conflicting statements I bet this will never be resolved properly.

Was Zimmerman overzealous for stalking this kid? Yeah. He should have just called the cops and let it be.

Does that give Martin the right to start beating the crap out of Zimmerman? No.

If Martin was on top of him pounding the shit out of him and not stopping? Yeah I'd shoot too because I'd be afraid of blacking out and this guy murdering me while I'm unconscious.

It's funny in my day to day life everyone considers me a liberal or at least a left leaning moderate. But here on the sift I must seem like Dick Cheney's hunting parnter! (the ones that didn't get shot obviously)

Canada threatens Dick Cheney's personal safety? Sounds like paradise! Glad I'm moving there now

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Proud graduate of the Dick Cheney school of deposition.

Did Dick Cheney put that guy on trial before he shot him in the face?

Jerk is still a jerk.

Just because I dislike much of what Ron Paul stands for and his policies, doesn't mean I don't "understand freedom". Typical Republican response, and SO fucking similar to "your either with us, or you're with the terrorists". Is he taking lines from Dick Cheney now?

The more I listen to him, and the more I study economics and macroeconomics, the more I realize that either Dr.Paul is a liar or is stupid. I'm not sure which, but he is so grossly wrong about so many things it makes me cringe to think of how much I used to support his beloved "message". (I actually sent him money and voted for him in the primaries as well.. fuck!)

He does what the GOP does every day, point to a failure somewhere and exclaim "well, if you did it my way it wouldn't be so fucked up!" which is nothing but pure horseshit.

Stewart was right. Where has this idea ever worked? The answer is NO FUCKING WHERE.

And you know what? We have this happiness index that is very, very clear. Societies that have strict government regulation over corporations and the environment, have the most prosperous economic conditions (except for creating do-nothing millionaires like Ron Paul), the healthiest citizens, the highest levels of employment, the best education, the best health care and basically the happiest people on the planet. Oh, and unlike Ron Paul, these countries aren't filled with religious nutbags.