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28 Jan 2015, 7:01 pm

The reason I ask this is, I saw on the news how the mayor of Beijing, China is very concerned about his city. He has even gone onto describe it as unlivable due to all the smog and other forms of pollution that plague it and its residents. When listening to what's going on, it's easy to see what's happening. Very little regulation on businesses and factories is causing a lot of pollution. When thinking of that, another group immediately comes to mind - certain factions of the Republican party who constantly complain about regulations here in the US.

My question for members and supporters of that faction: What is it, exactly, that you want?

Are you hoping American cities will be just as polluted and "unlivable" as Beijing? Do you secretly hope and pray residents of US cities will be stuck in situations like that from which they cannot escape and must only endure without any choice? Because, it does appear to be logic. Very little regulation and you have a situation similar to Beijing with Ozone everywhere.

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28 Jan 2015, 11:32 pm

What do Republicans want? In the American context it would seem they want-

* More wealth centralisation
* fewer government owned infrastructure and less spending on poor people
* higher military spending
* more aid to israel
* more money and power to wealthy upper class white men
* a bigger emphasis on blaming immigrants, trade unionists and progressives for america's problems rather than the wealthy bankers who caused them.


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29 Jan 2015, 12:08 am

Republican due to being self employed, small business, are subject to the same rules as Multi Nationals and Wall Street, both which have teams of payoff specialists.

Congress can point to The Law, which is only imposed on the few that produce most of the jobs, most of the small town economy, while Congress takes a half billion from Wall Street alone each year. That is the price of the top 500 people in government.

The Nations leading employer, those who hire five.

They also pay for another five, through taxes.

They are subject to the same compliance laws as the too big to fail banks, and Steel Mills.

Most of record keeping is to back filling out forms that prove that some regulation does not apply to you.

Defensive paperwork costs, and demands that you inform on your workers, and be the collection agent for possible taxes, for free, and now, reporting all of your suppliers with whom you do $600 dollars a year.

The Business Community is required to report everyone to the government.

Fail to be a spy, informer, and you will be fined beyond your net worth, and imprisoned.

Corporations do not go to jail, are fined part of what they stole, but it is different for those who hire one to a hundred, and produce about 75% of the jobs.

Burdens are placed on small employers, which reduces employment.

Obama Care being one where many workers have been cut to 32 hours a week.

Obama Care was for one purpose, so those with pre existing conditions could get cheap health care, the fifteen million with HIV, will be paid for by the young and healthy breeders being required to enroll, or having their tax return taken.

Republicans are for low taxes, which takes a growing economy, rising net worth, and investment.

Democrats are for enslaving the job producing part of the economy, and the workers, to fund their Social Programs, which are their main means of getting votes. That tax return will not go for paying down Student Loan Debt, it will make cheap health care available in San Francisco. Those people have good jobs, friends, own property, have investments, and it would be Homophobic to expect them to pay their own medical cost.

The Democratic Congress passed a law to let the breeders living pay check to paycheck in the rest of the country pay. Fifteen million votes.

Not getting their tax return, lots more will vote Republican.

The choice was, Publically Funded Health Care for all, Medicare as Universal, but they went for Private, where some who could not get healthcare could now buy the gold plated package, and most would get less than Medicare at inflated prices.

"You can screw all of the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but you cannot screw all of the people all of the time."

That is how it stands between the Republican voters, and the National Party. Do the job you were elected to do, or expect a pink slip.

Local Republicans have been electing some very different people, than the national party supports.

At the Grass Roots, expanding the domestic economy at the local level is the only thing that will produce a strong country. Local taxes pay for local services, schools, and maintain quality of life. Local jobs allow people to live in the towns where they grew up.

Exempting small business from excess regulation, reducing the paperwork, making the government show cause why an ice cream shop should file an EPA Environmental Statement, and other paperwork, would increase employment. OSHA does not apply to small shops, some old building do not have handicapped assisted rest rooms, so a customer asked, was allowed to use it, which he did to write a $500 fine. Now no one can use it. He did that all over town.

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29 Jan 2015, 12:00 pm

So the republicans must want Beijing's level of pollution since they don't want regulation driven by junk science and/or class envy.....
Shame on them. :shameonyou:


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29 Jan 2015, 12:12 pm

Raptor wrote:
So the republicans must want Beijing's level of pollution since they don't want regulation driven by junk science and/or class envy.....

Many don't want any regulation at all!

See here - they will throw ridiculous obstacles in the way to stop the EPA being able to act.

Read the whole of Mr Smith's statement and it becomes quite apparent that he doesn't know what he's talking about, he's just ideologically opposed to regulation. All well and good, but he should stand up and say he doesn't care about the consequences of his belief, rather than trying to smear his opponents.



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29 Jan 2015, 12:30 pm

...to be able to openly laugh at those less fortunate than themselves.



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29 Jan 2015, 1:29 pm

thomas81 wrote:
What do Republicans want? In the American context it would seem they want-

* More wealth centralisation
* fewer government owned infrastructure and less spending on poor people
* higher military spending
* more aid to israel
* more money and power to wealthy upper class white men
* a bigger emphasis on blaming immigrants, trade unionists and progressives for america's problems rather than the wealthy bankers who caused them.


Yeah that about seems to cover it.


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29 Jan 2015, 1:30 pm

Raptor wrote:
So the republicans must want Beijing's level of pollution since they don't want regulation driven by junk science and/or class envy.....
Shame on them. :shameonyou:

The don't want regulation period and if you listened to Sean Hannity you would know. They don't want any.



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29 Jan 2015, 1:51 pm

...to hide the fact that they only care about the richest 1 percent of Americans, when that fact is very obvious.


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29 Jan 2015, 1:59 pm

The Republican Party supporters say that they want vastly different things than the Democratic Party supporters say that they want, but both parties' leaders act as though they are one and the same. I don't care what they say; I care about what they do. Otherwise, it is merely bread and circus entertainment for simpletons.


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29 Jan 2015, 2:41 pm

I have no idea what republicans want because I live in Canada. In Canada we have liberals and conservatives. And to be perfectly honest I don't know what either one of them wants, either. And I don't care. All politics are evil, the end.



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29 Jan 2015, 3:13 pm

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
Raptor wrote:
So the republicans must want Beijing's level of pollution since they don't want regulation driven by junk science and/or class envy.....
Shame on them. :shameonyou:

The don't want regulation period and if you listened to Sean Hannity you would know. They don't want any.


If i want to know what Hannity has to say about anything all I have to do is listen to a liberal since they seem to be his biggest audience.....


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