My sentiments exactly! Bravo! I hope people remember this when they hear pols like Sarah-the-English-language-learner Palin campaign on “getting government out of the way” and other rants that it’s that ol’ evil government that interferes with the good life
Yep, and why we have leaded toys, and contaminated toothpaste and contaminated water and polluted air and falling bridges and undereducated kids and school buildings w/ vermin and ……….
Really Harley…do you think you can nail me with THAT old shtick…putting words in my mouth and then trying to change the subject? You know perfectly well I never said punish offenders in advance. I said REGULATE them in…
D’oh! Riiiiight, I forgot; to a neo-con, and form or regulation IS punishment.
believecommonsense about 15 years ago
My sentiments exactly! Bravo! I hope people remember this when they hear pols like Sarah-the-English-language-learner Palin campaign on “getting government out of the way” and other rants that it’s that ol’ evil government that interferes with the good life
Simon_Jester about 15 years ago
It was a radio commentator named Tom Leykis who said it best:
“The Republicans want to get the government off Exxon’s back…not your back.”
mogelsberg about 15 years ago
Yep, and why we have leaded toys, and contaminated toothpaste and contaminated water and polluted air and falling bridges and undereducated kids and school buildings w/ vermin and ……….
claudermilk about 15 years ago
Sadly true.
Simon_Jester about 15 years ago
Yeah, right Harley…let the market drive ‘em out of business if they do wrong, and we can always punish them afterwards.
Sure, a few people might die, or something, but that’s waaaayyy better than ( gasp! ) Government Regulation
macb423 about 15 years ago
The only thing I might have added would be an elephant in the corner saying: “Hmm, it must have been the jelly!”
Simon_Jester about 15 years ago
Gad…righties are priceless.
Really Harley…do you think you can nail me with THAT old shtick…putting words in my mouth and then trying to change the subject? You know perfectly well I never said punish offenders in advance. I said REGULATE them in…
D’oh! Riiiiight, I forgot; to a neo-con, and form or regulation IS punishment.
Sorry, my bad.