Dean Calls For New Controls on Business, Democrat Seeks 'Re-Regulation'

Washington Post ^ | 11/19/2003 | Jim VandeHei

[adam_az]

HOUSTON, Nov. 18 -- After years of government deregulation of energy markets, telecommunications, the airlines and other major industries, Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean is proposing a significant reversal: a comprehensive "re-regulation" of U.S. businesses.

The former Vermont governor said he would reverse the trend toward deregulation pursued by recent presidents -- including, in some respects, Bill Clinton -- to help restore faith in scandal-plagued U.S. corporations and better protect U.S. workers.

In an interview around midnight Monday on his campaign plane with a small group of reporters, Dean listed likely targets for what he dubbed as his "re-regulation" campaign: utilities, large media companies and any business that offers stock options. Dean did not rule out "re-regulating" the telecommunications industry, too.

He also said a Dean administration would require new workers' standards, a much broader right to unionize and new "transparency" requirements for corporations that go beyond the recently enacted Sarbanes-Oxley law.

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[mywholebodyisaweapon]

Yes. Supply-side economics works - in both directions. Dean would shift aggregate supply leftward just as effectively as the Arab Oil Embargo did in the 1970s. I guess the Democrats are determined to bring back stagflation along with the putrid fashions of that horrid decade.

[hchutch]

Look at how much George Soros is donating. That is going to be one heck of a marker he could call in.

[Grampa Dave]

Thank you. I have been looking for this speech and the references re when and where for a couple of years.

"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." --Adolf Hitler

(Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)

[.cnI redruM]

All You Ever Needed To Know About Re-Regulation:

Pythagorean Theorem: 24 Words
Lord's Prayer: 66 Words
Archemides' Principle: 67 Words
10 Commandments: 179 Words
Gettysburg Address: 286 Words
Declaration of Independence: 1,300 Words
U.S.C. RUles on Sale of Cabbages: 26,911 Words

That's BEFORE Howard Dean re-regulates cabage sales.

[finnman69]

click these links for more:

http://russp.org/nazis.html
http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-leftist/index.html
http://www.hitler.org/writings/programme/
http://www.hitler.org/

[N. Theknow]

Dean is using Marxist DemocRAT Party "Class Warfare" arguments.

[international american]

Yeah boy! Lets move some more companies over to Asia! How about Wall Street too!

[finnman69]

A recent Howard Dean Meetup event.

[blackie]

Metro Sexual Howie ~ Sucks ~ Big Time!

The lunatic left are the only things that need regulating!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, they will be added to my home page collection re the reality that the Nazis were the first National Socialists not conservatives as the left tries sell us.

[Bubba_Leroy]

When is he going to release his Five Year Plan to augment agricultural and industrial output by the proleteriat masses?

[Grampa Dave]

Yep it is past time to neuter the Lunatic Left and to "regulate them"!

[Grampa Dave]

I'm sure that his Watermelon Jihadist buddies like Club Sierra have that plan ready for him to announce.

[Young Werther]

Using the word "Arrogance" in various pundit tomes ignores the fact that the Dimbulbs really believe that the idea of socialism is right. Just need these arrogant smarty pants to make it happen. What's a few million lives in the trek to Utopia?

[blackie]

Neuter the lunatic left ~ Bump!

[Grampa Dave]

You posted: Look at how much George Soros is donating. That is going to be one heck of a marker he could call in.

Now look at my tag line!:)

t is amazing how up to speed a large % of Freepers have become re Soros. Just a few months ago when I blamed him for something, I would get kidding replies and some not so kidding. Now I get pings from all over when Soros is highlighted in a new thread or comments, thanking me for my early warnings or to let me know about the latest.

[SierraWasp]

See? We finally have a little white collar law enforcement action to sweep up the residue of the Clinton, Clinton & Gore, Inc. maladministration and the Commonista pricks use it to whip up a fervor to overburden free-markets to USSR status!!!

Their goal is "The USSA!" If Teddy Roosevelt were alive today and doing what's being done to clean up Wall Street, they'd be doing the same thing and the Media Commonistas would be helping, BIGTIME!!!

[Grampa Dave]

USSAR~

[BOBTHENAILER]

“I certainly would reverse media deregulation,” Dean said. “I would go back to the limitations on how many stations you can own in a given market.”

"For instance, Fox News would immediately be abolished in place of a network owned by my friend, George Soros. Actually there really only needs to be ONE Network, owned and controlled by me, your future fuhrer, er, President." Mr. Dean went on.

I hope this gets wide airplay, as it will ensure his total annhilation.

[Semper Paratus]

One week after he takes office the Captitol building is burned down and a Freeper is arrested as the perp.