Friday, September 19, 2008

Evil

Some areas we know the Reagan and Bush governments have seriously cut government services:

1. Stock market operations and rules.
2. Financial market operations and rules.
3. Airline operations.
4. Food quality inspections.
5. Meat inspection
6. Gun ownership rules.
7. Land use regulations.
8. Air pollution control.
9. Water quality regulations.
10. New product inspection
11. Trucking rules and inspections.
12. Road and bridge inspection and funding.

Most Democrats I know, and I DO know a lot of them, don't oppose capitalism or entrepreneurialism. What they oppose is letting capitalists run freely through the economy, scraping in all the money they can and ignoring the evil consequences of their uncontrolled lust for money and power.

When you let this stuff go on, bridges will fall down, and children will be poisoned by toys, and folks will die from their lettuce and cucumbers, and people will have raging diarrhea from their contaminated hamburgs, and the stock market will trample all over people's savings and their pensions that no one has yet found a way to steal entirely, and trucks will be blowing up on expressways, and rivers will produce fish no one should eat, and the mercury levels in the air will be poisoning children in their playgrounds, and your taxes will go for things you can't even imagine while the roads are crumbling, and the schools are seething.

Capitalism is fine. Unregulated capitalism is disaster.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah but what about the invisible hand (question mark).

Bud said...

Irene:

I think the hand is holding a bloody knife.