There's always a slant to the interpretation of legislation, depending on who your interest group is. But I imagine even you might have a problem with an exemption that allows tax-dodging companies who have a mailbox in the Bahamas to qualify for government contracts. The ergonomic issue also happens to be something I am very familiar with. Throwing out those rules is throwing away the baby with the bathwater. I have seen many work situations and you would not believe how the equipment and ways some people are asked to work. And they call it safe! And the manner in which Bush is doing some of these things, like imposing new accounting rules on unions, is not by persuasion or by building coalition and bipartisan support, but by edict.
Most of what he is doing is deregulation in one form or another. But everywhere you look, deregulation has failed because greed trumps the public good. It took years for the energy companies to unravel the consumer protections built into the California energy market, but when the opportunity came, California was raped for $9 billion, even damaging the state's credit rating. And even with all the taped telephone conversations, the e-mails, the confessions, the documents showing it was deliberate, Bush's FERC STILL turns a blind eye.
This is a president who believes all domestic problems are solved by tax cuts and deregulation and all foreign policy problems are solved by military force.
So your attempt to paint me as someone who favors lifetime unemployment benefits is merely to avoid the issue and salve your own doubts. |
