Corporations are paper machines designed to maximize profit. That's all they do. They don't care about your rights, or your health, or your quality of life. If corporations could make a buck by picking you up off the street and throwing you into a meat grinder, they would have a fiduciary duty to do so.
Currently, our corporate sociopathic citizenry (corporations are people, my friends) make money by poisoning us (polluting, not creating safe working environments), enslaving us (making people work for peanuts, using slave labor in prisons and places like Saipan), imprisoning us (for-profit jails and schools), cheating us (the tricks and traps of the banking industry, as one small example), and generally making our lives miserable. Sometimes, they also provide a product or service that we enjoy as well.
Regulations are the only reason corporations don't do even more evil to us. They aren't allowed to sell crack, for example, in Michael Moore's famous question (why don't corporations sell crack?), because as a society we've decided that THEY CAN'T DO THAT. And in cases of them poisoning us, cheating us, killing us, imprisoning us, and enslaving us, they must be regulated.
That's why whenever you hear a politician talking about the evils of regulation - you must remember that what they are talking about is taking the leashes off these horrible, inhuman, corporate beasts, and letting them run absolutely ragged over us.
Deregulation = death and horror, poison, enslavement
Not surprisingly, the GOP is all for deregulation. Can we get some Democratic politicians to talk, just once, about how great regulation is for making our lives less crappy?
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