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In reply to the discussion: Democrats' hunt for the white working-class male voter [View all]Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)There has been a massive increase in regulation in my industry under the current administration.
The FMCSA is giving trial lawyers ( one of the biggest contributors to the Democratic Party and Obama campaign) a huge payoff which will end up costing me thousands of dollars every year, if not tens of thousands of dollars through proposed rulemaking. The numbers are based on nothing more than what the lawyers lobbying group told the agency they wanted in the new rule.
The only people fighting to keep that regulatory agency from running amok currently are the Republicans in Congress, with the help of only a few Democrats.
They have used legislation to get some of the most onerous of the recent rules rescinded, and are trying to hold a regulatory agency that was doing the bidding of the largest industry lobbying group to listen to all stakeholders in the industry instead of the largest campaign contributors.
The Democrats appointed by Obama to the DOT and the FMCSA were in bed with billion-dollar corporations, and refused to listen to any other voices. The Republicans are forcing them to listen by threatening the agency with legislative action seeking relief for small business owners...like me.
I don't view my economic self-interest through the eyes of my 'masculinity'. The Democrats are losing the White male vote because they are indifferent to the plight of millions of voters who have been hurt by their policies.
Some days it is really difficult to defend an administration which has hurt me and many tens of thousands just like me economically due to political paybacks.