Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Industry Self-Regulation Not Gov’t Intrusion

Surely logging interests wouldn’t clearcut so far as to silt up the streams and ruin riparian habitat
Hog farmers will responsibly provide us with affordable chops without just dumping all the manure
Altruistic corporate leaders won’t boost profits with cheaper, un-inspected, foreign food ingredients
Surely it can’t cost us a hundred times what it costs Africans for the privilege of having a cell phone

Oil producers will surely have proven tested contingency plans and practiced emergency procedures
Factories won’t simply dump untested new chemicals just because there’s not yet a law against them
Surely banks would not bet against funds they built to fail yet still push them to good customers
Secret internal monitoring will probably prevent rogue perverted clergy from molesting our children

Insurers would never pay commissions for twisting arcane technicalities to deny costly procedures
We also don’t need government death panels making treatment decisions for good family doctors
Unregulated mountain top removal will yield us a safe and cheap, coal-based energy independence
You really can count on wise global oligarchs, meeting in secret, to craft a better world for us all

Trust selfless defense contractors to patriotically hold down costs and not invent bogeymen
Unconstrained, agribusiness will conserve water, provide safe foods and sustain our soils forever
Industries will self-regulate to reduce CO2 emissions even though it may even reduce their profits
Setting the amount of salt, calories and fats in our food is best left to corporate marketers

The Best and Brightest over there on Wall Street must be permitted unfettered financial innovation
Supply and demand will prevent invisible multinationals from strip-mining the open seas of all life
Heavy-handed rules and regulation can only cost hard-working families excessive jobs and money
Industry councils will devise voluntary guidelines to properly address virtually any issue

BigPharma wont push phony lifestyle drugs, ignore 3rd world suffering and jack up generic prices
The informed consumer will wisely avert epidemics of obesity, diabetes and coronary disease
Lifetime judges would never actively misinterpret the constitution to misconstrue the people’s will
Monopolies, tariffs and subsidies without oversight or taxes are not the only corporate lobbying goals

Investment banks do not use their unregulated financial creativity to blackmail world markets
Lawyers would never let their ads degenerate into despicably misleading sales pitches to sufferers
Real estate professionals nobly self-monitor conflicts of interest, omissions and deceptions
Gamblers, smokers and drinkers can retain control of their lives thru Personal Responsibility

Carmakers would’ve tackled safety, economy and emissions themselves without intrusive mandates
Food conglomerates don’t need oversight for targeting kids with addiction to caffeine, sugar and fat
Merging cable providers actually does increase competition, efficiency and lowers consumer prices
A fuel of blind sociopathic greed guided by short term stock gains yields our globally optimum future

No one would dream of creating a non-profit to swindle duped donors out of contributions
Fuzzy and expensive sustainability policies lead back down the slippery slope of that failed socialism
Unfettered, untraceable access to any type of weapon is a god-given, constitutionally-enshrined right
Secretly spying on our private lives requires no oversight if we, as citizens really have nothing to hide

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