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HousingWatcher
2011 Dec 12, 2:06am
One thing I notice about Republicans is that they all live in an echo chamber and refuse to listen to countering view points.
Post liberal comments on a coservative blog like RedState, and you will be banned.
Post conservative comments on a liberal blog like HuffPo and you will be attacked, but not banned.
Republicans absolultely will not listen to liberal viewpoints. There is no argument allowed. The only argument allowed is a debate that focuses on who is MORE conservative.
tatupu70
2011 Dec 12, 3:11am
Regulations do hurt. Just take a trip to the northeast sometime and look at the old mill towns.
You list a bunch of anecdotes that are about liabilities and and lawsuits--those are not regulations. Then you finish with a generic statement without providing any evidence that regulations caused the mills to close.
I'll ask again--people, please be specific. Which regulations were responsible for the mills closing?
zzyzzx
2011 Dec 12, 4:20am
- Businesses that require exploiting labor (children, unsafe environments, illegal immigrants) to be profitable.
Which is why we need to ban imports from countries that use child labor, allow unsafe environments, etc. to create a more level playing field.
HousingWatcher
2011 Dec 12, 4:27am
I live in a state where you cannot pump your own gas, New Jersey, and our gas prices are consistently below the national average.
So that means one thing: Gas stations in states that allow customers to pump their own gas are POCKETING the saved money instead of passing on to the consumer in the form of lower prices.
HousingWatcher
2011 Dec 12, 4:29am
Regulations do hurt. Just take a trip to the northeast sometime and look at the old mill towns.
Yet you cannot name a single regulations that hurts business.
- Businesses that require exploiting labor (children, unsafe environments, illegal immigrants) to be profitable.
Which is why we need to ban imports from countries that use child labor, allow unsafe environments, etc. to create a more level playing field.
If the homeowner isn't insulted by your offer...you didn't bid low enough!!!
Yes. I'm surprised nobody has gone to the WTO about this stuff. It's not possible to have a stable free trade arrangement between nations with fundamentally different ideas about how human beings should be treated.
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There is only one way we can fixt the economy and restore propsperity. And that way is to defeat the insane Tea Party Republicans who currently hold one house of Congress hostage.
"Basically we're still stuck in the situation we were three years ago and we haven't made any progress at all except that our problems are much worse because of political reasons, because we now have a crazy party in charge of one of the Houses of our Congress and they won't allow anything to happen because it's in their vested interest to make things worse,” Bartlett explained in his typically exasperated way. “Plus they have a theory that is completely nuts…. I'm very depressed. I'd love to see some program like this [paper] enacted. I see zero chance of it happening. The most we can hope for is that a complete crazy person like Newt Gingrich gets the Republican nomination, the Republicans lose so badly that they lose control of the House and don't get control of the Senate and then maybe in a year we can finally talk about doing something rational such as what is discussed in this paper.”
--Former Regan Advisor Bruce Bartlett
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/economic-experts-gather-in-dc-to-explain-why-politics-has-doomed-us.php
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