" 'Reform' is Republican for 'screw the poor and the middle class.' "
If you're looking for a great f-bomb laden critique of the Bush administration and its pro-business, anti-consumer policies, Lance Mannion just posted a good one:
Don't worry. The market will take care of it. When enough people get sick and know what companies' products made them sick and stop buying from them and when enough stores that carry those products close and enough lawsuits are filed, then all that tainted and spoiled food will just magically vanish from the marketplace.
Except the Republican Free Marketeers want to take away your ability to sue. They call it tort reform. It's like Social Security reform. "Reform" is Republican for "screw the poor and the middle class."
Nevermind. At least on your sickbed or in your grave you'll have the satisfaction of knowing your suffering saved the rest of us a few pennies per pound on imported produce.
Source: Lance Mannion: They poison everything they touch
He's right. A great many "reformers" do indeed think the invisible hand of the market will sort everything out and that government regulation will just cost money. It seems all the invisible hand can do these days is flip us a very visible bird.
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