what I posted was that bush* DE-REGULATION caused these major problems in OUR country....your post appears to be a faux - 'we distort' .....
yes, bush* de-regulated mercury from coal-burning power plants, and bush* de-regulated arsenic in drinking water...as I noted, the long-term consequences of this deregulation will eventually show up...many will DIE....
naturally occuring does NOT mean that arsenic is non-toxic....arsenic can and should be removed from DRINKING water in America, because it is TOXIC....de-regulating arsenic doesn't change arsenic's toxic effects....
skin cancer caused by drinking 'naturally' occuring arsenic, and this is why America must regulate drinking water and treat it to remove arsenic...
yes, bush* failed to fund Federal laboratories for the control of mad-cow disease...even after it showed up in Canada's and England's beef supplies...bush* just plain sat at his 'prairie chapel ranch' and DID NOTHING to regulate or even to TEST beef cattle...afterall, if bush* funded any Federal laboratories, toxins will be found...bush* loves the monkey approach..."no tests", which bush* thinks means 'no toxins'...all Federal laboratories have had funding cuts under bush*...and bush* minions are working hard to REMOVE toxins from the test lists...it's the monkey approach and it's a complete failure....
as far as 'little people' loosing their investments, you don't need to look far....thousands lost their investments when neil bush stole and was CONVICTED in the Silverado Savings and Loans collapse (while reTHUGlicans paid neil bush's Federal fines and neil never went to jail) in Denver...thousands lost their investments in the ENRON collapse, while bush* de-regulates money market accounts, energy, water, and more....just open your eyes to the money stolen during the bush* energy crisis in California....
your FLU excuse is EXACTLY the reason that PROFITEERING needs to be removed from diseases...those who profit from people with life-threatening diseases, or those people facing death from lack of vaccines are the most reprehensible....American is a GREAT country, it's time to remove the profiteers preying on those least able to defend themselves...seniors, people with disabilities, children...some of this can be changed by funding Food and Drug Administration laboratories and inspectors....yes, in this arena, bush* has de-funded so much that it's just a matter of time that more major issues arise (like OUR soldiers dropping dead from Anthrax vaccine)....
OSHA has been so de-regulated under monkey bush*, that the NYT had a three part series on workplace DEATHS during this holiday season...thousands of Americans continue to DIE under bush* failure to prosecute these criminal corporations (and those policies come right out of the bush*-supervised Justice dept)...so the DEATHS continue....it's no big deal to these corporations, they just contribute to bush* campaign funds and they get off with little fines...
the buck stops on bush*'s desk...bush* supervises and directs all these failed departments, whose policies of de-regulation and lack of legal enforcement are indeed KILLING Americans....