Post by DoDPost by Governor SwillThat depends on whether your a business or an individual. The GOP is
happy to restrict the liberties of the individual -
Which GOP? The one I used to like or the crap we have now. Probably be
easier to use the word conservative...
Being a Nixon voter, I have to admit to a tremendous amount of
disappointment with the party. They seem to have lost all sense of
proper governing in the search for a coalition that will produce votes
and therefore keep them employed.
Far more conservative than they ever were in my lifetime, they seem
sometimes determined to roll society back a century at least and
institute religious law as the law of the land.
Post by DoDPost by Governor Swillto dictate how you
must live your life right down to the foods you eat
If you are talking about conservatives, that is not true.
Certainly it is. Republicans are fighting tooth and nail to prevent
labeling on food that would inform the public thus taking away our
choices. Trying to ban abortion, restrict even the use of birth
control and failing to support same sex marriages all point to a
determination to reinstitute the conformist fifties where Americans
lived in ignorant bliss about what their government was really doing
in their name.
Post by DoDPost by Governor Swill- but the
Democrats would restrict the liberties of businesses to operate as
they would like. No more screwing consumers over with unsafe products
or marking items "Made in USA" when in fact, they were not.
I don't know where you are from, but in the U.S. it doesn't work at all like
you are saying.
You, clearly, are not from these parts or you wouldn't be arguing the
point. The FDA was created to oversee purity and safety in the food
and medicine supply. "Caveat emptor" was the cry of the day and if
you were poisoned by a contaminated drug prescribed by an unlicensed
"doctor", oh well, too bad. You should have done your research. Black
pepper adulterated with graphite shavings, ruined flour sold after the
worms had been sifted out, the list went on and on.
Now the FDA is in the pockets of Big Pharma and the likes of Monsanto
and the clock has been turned back a century.
Tens of millions of cars have killer airbags because the NHTSA and
other relevant govt agencies lacked the support and funding to ensure
those products were safe.
Hardly a week goes by that some product or company hasn't placed the
dollar above the public safety and got away with it because we were
too busy building and scrapping F 22 Raptors we didn't even need to
pay for food manufacturer inspections. Remember the peanut butter
fiasco a few years back?
Post by DoDPost by Governor SwillThus the differences between the parties are made clean. The
Republicans want to screw YOU over, the Democrats want to screw with
your JOB.
I have no idea of what you are saying.
Not surprised. Perhaps you expected this to end up as a diatribe
against Republicans or conservatives in general but the fact of the
matter is that the extreme ends of both parties only THINK they're
saving America when in fact, their agendas would destroy it.
The Dems would destroy the economy by over regulation (the late 1970s
economy) while the Reps would destroy it by under regulation (the
Great Recession of 2008).
The Dems would destroy society by removing all restrictions on
personal behavior while the Reps would destroy it by legislating
conformist lifestyles that pleased their extremists.
Swill
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To leftists, centrists look like conservative Republicans.
To rightists, centrists look like liberal Democrats.
Actually, they're somewhere in between - that's why they're called "centrists".