Reply #9: Are you old enough to remember Reagan's 'De-Regulation'?

[jannyk]

Because de-regulating the 'strong rules' is one of the first things the next Repug admin (and there will be one eventually) would do - they won't hold.

May I also remind you that the Banks were 'regulated', as were all the other financial houses, including Bernie Madoff, that went berzerk and brought us to our knees. Look at how that worked out for us.

Implementing 'strong' government regulation of industry is always weak at best, and flagrant violations bring only minor hand slaps compared with the profit generated by the violation.

With your proposed agenda, everyone is 'insured', so what possible validation would there be for expanding medicare. We lose the biggest impetus, the un/under-insured!

We already had the 'landslide' victory. Why do we need a second one to get this job done?