Reply #110: well, maybe if you'd understand the strong arm tactics used

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by the * administration, you'd get the name "Little Boots", especially when it came to war with Iraq, which the administration was salivating over before 9/11.

There is a reason we have regulations--many of us don't want to take a chance everytime we eat our food or drink our water. Maybe some of use don't trust mega corporations contaminating our food sources and drinking water or the air we breathe. Profit is over people-so basically we don't count, so who will represent us against those corporations who put profit first? Over hundred years ago, this country was ruled by corruption, nepotism-during the Spanish American war more soldiers died of contaminated food and faulty weapons than the enemy, and I see the same thing today. When Little Boots privatized services to the military, our military was served contaminated water twice, electrocuted showers and now health problems from contaminated air. Hey, but corporations, such as, KBR made a profit, that's all that counts. And, our taxes, supposedly paid to help build a country we destroyed, was used to build buildings that were uninhabitable-but hey, those corporations made a profit.

You talk about deregulating, it has further put this country into an economic quagmire. Yet, you want more of it. Nothing like Wall Street tanking the housing, then BETTING on our misery.

There is a reason we have entitlements, and things like Medicare, most of us have paid in most of our lives. We are number one in the world for the most cost for health care, and yet thirty seventh in the world for good care. One reason is because profit is first over people. Little Boots, with his pharma bill, which some real repugs were against, gave big pharma everything they wanted-medicare at one time could arbitrate for lower costs, that was off the table, also buying drugs, like from Canada (cheaper) off the table. He gave the pharma a captured consumer, while further increasing the deficit with his pharma bill-while seniors and the disabled wound up paying more.

A single payer, nationalized health care reduces costs, it allows corporations to save money on health benefit packages, and saves us money.

Worker safety, decent wages, safe water, food, air, drugs-these are things that should be regulated. Men and women fought and died for these rights, and yet, someone like Paul wants to deregulate? I agree with the above poster, maybe you should go to a country that has no regulations at all and see how things are going.