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I was recently in Detroit for a wedding and then at a family and friends breakfast the day after. At my table was my very-lib, intellectual sister; an older woman neighbor; and the neighbor’s trendy lawyer daughter from DC. The discussion came around to “how things have changed over the years” and specifically, how much freedom we have lost in that time.
I shared how I used to be able (while in the 5th and 6th grades) to put on my orange Safety Patrol belt, watch the foot traffic coming at my post, walk into the busy street and stop traffic to let the kids cross the road. Now, I joked, you probably would need an act of Congress and an Environmental Impact Report to give some kid that kind of authority and put the “poor child” at such risk.
My question was simple: Are we better off today then we were before with all of the oversite and regulations? Man, you should have heard all of the lame howling and whinning went on around that table!
Based on Momopoly, the board has a "pay the government half of what you have" every other square.
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Is this the same chamber that backed Obama?
Funny that politco always quotes these leftists at the end of the article with their talking points..
blah, blah, blah people will like heathcare: FAIL.
Don't you just love the way this reporter refers to complaints about regulation as a "mantra" and puts scare quotes around "burdensome regulations"? I think reporters should have to file a report for each story they've written. They should have to say how many words they used, how many of those were nouns and how many were prepositions; whether they referred to any minorities in their story, and if not why not; how long it took them to write the story and whether they used a telephone during that time; their latitude, longitude, and altitude when they wrote the story; and whether they used any sort of dictionary or spell-checker. Then if it is later determined that they got any of it wrong, they should be fined $1,000.