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Bush sending the fox to guard the henhouse is S.O.P. for his administration.

Bringing in industry insiders to "regulate" OSHA, giving the pen to Big Pharma to write the drug regs, etc. Although not exactly parallel to the fox/henhouse metaphor, outsourcing much of the war in Iraq to Halliburton/KBR stinks the same way.

Heckuva job, Bushie!

Is there anything...any agency/policy that President shit for brains hasn't decimated or sold to our corporate masters? I honestly can't think of one...but I'm hoping it's out there.

You don't need a fancy degree or a brilliant resume to understand that no business nor person should be put in charge of their own oversight. Understanding the fox/hen house stuff would suffice (and I'm sure they understand it well).

And how many more people/pets are going to have die or get ill before we get some genuine oversight into our food production (even though China would have to agree to it first.)

People are quick to blame government for regulations, when most regulatory actions occur at the behest (iron-handed financial influence) of established industry trying to protect itself from new competitors, not for the protection of consumers or workers.

Industries cry crocodile tears about the onerous federal regulations and the erosion of the free enterprise system, when they use government to eliminate their competition.

As soon as "workplace safety," "product safety," and other issues eliminate their upstart competitors, they engage upon a cynical campaign to expunge those same regulations. They point at exaggerated depictions of excesses of OSHA and other agencies - that they themselves promulgated - as reasons to do away with the regulations and even the agencies ... until new competitors appear.

You've been had. It's a ploy that American workers have continually fallen for - cursing government, when they have been actually exploited by industry.

The Bushists have been eager (and profitting) participants in this deception. Isn't it time you spoke?

But there's one thing you can't call a employer willing to sicken and kill his workers for the sake of profit....a wimp.

No sir, that popcorn boss was courageous for sticking to his guns, following his own heart and watching one worker after the other drop over from faux-buttery lungs. A wimp would have quit after the first worker started coughing up yellow.

The only wimps in this story are OSHA and those weakling workers. And Bush is no wimp for having the willingness to let a few low paid workers die for our munching pleasure.

If OSHA would just keep it's wimpy nose out of it, the wimp workers would die only to be replaced by folks with strong lungs able to spray yellow crap on our popcorn 12 hours a day and still be tough enough to go home and thump the wife if she gets out of line.

Brummett has finally opened my eyes! Wimps worry, tough guys don't. Let's quit being a bunch of Constitution waving wimps and bomb the hell out of Iran and be done with it!

If MISTER Brumett will forgive this "gutless" , "Anonymous disdain" for posting with less than my full name and tag line allow me to say that Green Hermit has crafted the perfect Catch-22. But underneath it is a cynical approach to workers's saftey. How much longer till WASP 10 year olds return to the market place so bidness can bitch about it to regulators?

I would refer you to a more sane policy as outlined in Biliken Man thread this week.
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ENVIRONMENT: "His [Guv Geo Bush] environmental programme was a bonanza for his corporate friends"-made compliance voluntary. "Under his regime Texas became the most polluted region in the United States and Canada." He packed the TX Resources Conserv. Comm. with "lobbyists for the energy industry.." pp. 109-110.
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ImperialOverstretch: George W., Bush & the Hubris of Empire by Burbach and Tarbell

I really believe Bush and Co.(which includes quite a few Democrats) are flat out trying to destroy our Democracy as we were taught it's supposed to be. They have left no stone unturned with their cabal. How many ways are they trying to kill us is the best question.

I usually cringe when folks say, there ought to be a law, but, in this case I really do think we need a law for "beyond treason". Bushco is worse than a parasite. At least a smart parasite knows it should bleed its host slowly so it may live longer.

Only fat cats, fundies, and the likes of Hitler or Osama are smiling at what's happening in the US these days.

Yes, Eureka you wonder how much longer until Adolf Rove comes up with a Final Solution to libs, demos, and enviromentalists. Will George Hitler retreat into a bunker before Nov '08?
Seems Darth Cheney is already there.
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Sadly, we have to realize that the status of the once great USA as the number one country is gone.
We are hated around the world because we broke our own rule by invading a country which posed no threat to us.
This administration is a complete SNAFU.
bin Laden is jumping for joy.
His Mission is Accomplished.