Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:30:48 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote:

It's the old Repubs favor the freedom of business to do whatever they
want, and Dems favor the freedom of individuals to do whatever they
want.

It's worse than that. The Republicans rate saving the environemnt,
increasing workplace safety, providing a living wage, etc., below making
money. "You can't do ......, it'll cut my profits." What do they care,
they'll be dead by the time the **** hits the fan.


There is a big leap of faith here in your statement that is baldly
wrong. The proposals of the left do not "save the environment",
"increase workplace safety", "provide a living wage", or any such
other thing. They are nothing more than cheap political theatrics
to buy votes from the sub-literate moochers exemplified by ACORN
and its minions. The honest way to accomplish this is to reform
tort laws to do two things:

1) Make silly law suits punishingly expensive for the attorneys
bringing.

2) Make it easier for the average person to bring suit when there
is a legitimate claim for things like poor workplace safety.

These two things are very difficult to get right simultaneously,
but at least it is remotely possible. There is NO hope of using
law to legislate these charming little experiments in social engineering
fairly. Every single one of the things you cite benefits some people to
the detriment of other, except in principle, environmental laws. The problem
with those is that the government always gets them wrong - go look at what's
happening in the San Joachin valley today for an example of what happens
when the lunatic left pantheists are put in charge of the EPA.

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