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Thread #145222   Message #3365209
Posted By: Don Firth
18-Jun-12 - 07:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Can we afford Democracy?
Subject: RE: BS: Can we afford Democracy?
Once again you're trying to put words in my mouth. PTUI!! Unsanitary!!

NO, GoofuS, I'm not advocating more bureaucracy, I'm saying make the regulatory agencies we already have in place function the way they were intended. Get the Wall Street bankers OFF the Securities and Exchange Commission. Then get drug company executives OFF the Food and Drug Administration.

And similarly, clean the company stooges out the other regulatory agencies and appoint people who do not have a financial interest in the businesses and industries they're supposed to regulate, as they were originally intended to do, and prevent the kind of scams, Ponzi schemes, and excesses that got the country—and much of the rest of the world—into this mess!

It was Ronald Reagan who started castrating the agencies that Roosevelt first put in place, and which helped end the Depression. Businesses hated these agencies because they had to deal honestly with the public. By rendering them non-functional, Reagan became one of the Saints of the Right Wing. Subsequent Republican presidents have continuted to do the same thing: render the regulatory agencies impotent so that the looting of the country could continue.

It's not brain surgury, GoofuS. It's just common sense, a commodity which you and much of the rest of the country seems to be lacking in these days!

You know. Don't put the fox in charge of the chicken coop. Simple as that!!

History, man!! History!

You know, GoofuS, you're so busy pumping up your own feeble ego by making brainless attacks against people who know what's going on and are concerned about it that you'll NEVER learn. You don't WANT to learn. Like a typical Know Nothing, you don't want to learn anything, you don't want to help solve anything, and you just don't give a damn. You just want to snipe at others, then sit back and feel smug.

You're a waste of protoplasm!

Don Firth