The EPIC FAILURES of DEREGULATION are on full display. Deregs are a disaster waiting to happen.

[Union Yes]

Oil disasters.

Climate change.

Mining industry deaths.

Banking system in a state of collapse.

Off-shoring taxable income.

Death of the middle class.

Corporate behemoths swallowing up mom-and-pop everything.

Factory farms.

Poisoning/Rape of our environment.

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Deregulation kills.

Imagine if Tim Kaine pulled his head out of his ass and made this a nationwide campaign theme.

Smart Democratic candidates will run on pointing out the horrible consequences of deregulation.

Deregulation or absence of enforcing existing regs caused..

The gulf oil spill.

America's banking collapse.

Miner deaths and lax workplace safety enforcement....

....................................................

Deregulation is a disaster waiting to happen.

Democrats could win on that theme in today's changing political environment.

People are waking the fuck up.

When will the Democratic Party do the same?

[Lasher]

1. Amen, Brother!

They have eyes but do not see.

[kestrel91316]

2. No, no, you don't get it at all, silly.........

existing regulations, even those completely unenforced, are why all those disasters happened. The solution is to completely end all government regulation of business, period.

:sarcasm:

Had to add this ^^^ because otherwise some idiot will think I am serious and light into me.

[Union Yes]

3. Word. Clever sarcasm is all good in my book.

:fistbump:

:hi:

[seabeyond]

4. yup... exactly. start regulating again wil take care of a whole lot of problems

anyone who has power... needs boundaries/rules/law to not abuse.

[Union Yes]

7. Very well said!

:fistbump:

[rudy23]

5. Those are all successes, depending on what class you're in.

To the top 1%, it's a checklist of ways to protect their asses over the next century.

[Union Yes]

6. The recent Bilderberg gathering in Spain was an orgy of cash and powermongering..

In other words, those who love deregulation. Powerful enough to dictate deregulatory policymaking.

Worldwide. Fuck every one of them.

:fistbump:

[blindpig]

8. Deregulation is the epic failure of regulation.

It will happen every time, capital will not be constrained, not for long, there's money to be made. Capital holds all the cards in our present society, how could it be otherwise?

[L0oniX]

9. The largest disaster awaits all who depend on oil energy. Everything else pales by comparison.

[blondeatlast]

10. So true. and it is always the children who suffer the full effects. It began 30 years ago.

And tyhis is what it's wrought.

[Union Yes]

11. Yep. When Ray-gun spawned forth. nt

[madfloridian]

12. You failed to mention deregulation of education.

[Union Yes]

19. I did. I feel bad for forgetting to add education.

Which is being deregulated as secretly as possible by Duncan and group. Obama's stance on public ed is nauseating.

Charter schools cut corners to increase profits. Cheapening the quality of education that those kids receive. Poor education can haunt a person for a lifetime and is a proven poverty-enabler.

My only hope is that we can move the political compass of Washington slightly left in the 2010 midterm. I'm donating and volunteering for 2 local Dems. I'm also making several small donations through Actblue to progressive Dem candidates. If they don't put a premium on public education as a candidate, they won't get my money.

I call reps and sens. State and Fed. I beg them to oppose de-funding and privatization of public ed.

I've seen everyone around me benefit from public education. Just teaching literacy alone, can set a person free.

Math, History, Science, Physical Ed(big public health improver) all equally important.

Our public education system made America strong. Notice how as PE falls, so does America?

[madfloridian]

33. Appreciate your comment.

Thanks.

:hi:

[gulliver]

13. Agreed. We need that narrative told.

Government has to set and enforce the rules. That is its main purpose. There need to be laws. There isn't anything difficult to get about that.

[bvar22]

14. All HAIL the Giant Invisible Hand!

The Giant Invisible Hand will save us all.

The Giant Invisible Hand Loves Us.

The Giant Invisible Hand magically reaches down from above and "corrects" markets.

We have no need of regulation.

We have the Giant Invisible Hand.

All HAIL the Giant Invisible Hand!!!!"

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.
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And people say the Democrats are "anti-religion". LOL
"Free Markets" IS a religion which demands absolute fealty to an invisible deity.

Anytime you hear a "Democrat" hyping "Free Markets" or "Free Trade", KNOW that that person is an ENEMY to Americans who Work for a Living.

[laughingliberal]

15. Right on target. nt

[Union Yes]

20. Damn right. Well said!

:fistbump:

[Junkdrawer]

22. The Invisible Hand wields a switchblade.... n/t

[Carolina]

16. K&R! Great post

great screen name :hi:

[kctim]

17. The epic failure

has been in not tying specific deregulation to what they directly resulted in.

[upi402]

18. Better too late than never -

Ignore the faulty wiring, house engulfed in flames - better to wake up and get out than sit and die from the fumes I guess.

[Union Yes]

38. Yep, I agree. Government needs to push to re-regulate now!

[HughMoran]

21. Shown in a graph

[Union Yes]

29. Thank you for posting this Hugh!

:fistbump:

:yourock:

[Sebastian Doyle]

23. Time to roll back every fucked up piece of corporate fellation of the last 30 years.

Every deregulation. Every trade agreement. Every merger. Every tax cut for the stinking filthy tax dodging ultra rich.

All of it.

[Union Yes]

24. Great way to say it! I'm fucking tired of cordiality. I like straightforward, bullshit-free opinions

Well said SD!

:fistbump:

:yourock:

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

25. Mad Cow. E-coli. Salmonella. Listeria. Cadmium. Lead. Melamine. Hormones. Antibiotics.

What kills me is that we don't check the poisonous stuff coming IN, so the kids are chomping on cadmium jewelry and the pets are dying from melamine pet food and our IN country stuff is so unregulated other countries don't want us to export to them.

How many Americans are even aware that other countries say thanks but no thanks to many of our food products?

[Union Yes]

26. Great list of more deregs that I forgot to add to my OP. Thanks for adding!

:fistbump:

[Blue_Tires]

27. This is still one of the alltime worst examples, imo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampoong_Department_Store_collapse

[Union Yes]

30. I remember that tragedy. Been awhile since I've thought about it. Thanks for the link and refresher!

:fistbump:

[AnArmyVeteran]

28. Amen. Most democratic leaders seem like gutless cowards and cower to those on the right.

They don't even realize if they woke up and began to speak out against the obvious they could win and win big in the Fall. They have the brains to get elected, but then they go into comas unable to even articulate what every other American can. Is it because they are stupid, or is it because they have sold us out?

I would like to see leaders emerge and begin to tell it like it is without using all of the typical measured responses you usually hear from our representatives.

How in the hell can we even attempt to undo the damages of the last regime if our leaders keep giving into those on the right?

[Codeine]

31. Electricity deregulation kicked my state's ass.

People never learn.

[Union Yes]

32. Enron immediately comes to mind...

Thanks for adding. Utility dereg has usually proven to be a disaster.

[Quantess]

34. The evidence is screaming at us.

K & R

[Union Yes]

35. Yep, it really is screaming at us. Can't get much more obvious. nt

[Gates9]

36. I Fear That One Day People Will Talk About The Fall Of America...

Due to an un-regulated capitalist system with no rules, the same way I grew up hearing about the fall of the Soviet Union due to un-checked authoritarianism.

[Union Yes]

37. Well said!

Welcome to DU.

:hi:

[glitch]

39. K & R but the fucking retreads that need to hear it won't listen. nt