Dean calls for reversal of deregulation - Economic platform would underscore `new social contract'

Boston.com ^ | 11/19/03 | Jim VandeHei

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

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 "reregulation" of US 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 US corporations and better protect US workers.

[Always Right]

The more this guy talks, the more I am tickled the Dems want to nominate him.

[Nonstatist]

God help us if he gets in.

[Arkinsaw]

The more this guy talks, the more I am tickled the Dems want to nominate him.

We have to be careful though and take him seriously. We all know that Enron was a bad thing, but we can't assume that he can't demagogue the issue and make reregulation sound like a good thing to the uninformed. We will have to answer every statement he makes.

[Chris Tucker]

Goodbye Dean, it was nice knowing you. Nobody wants a redux of Jimmy Carter.

[kesg]

"In order to make capitalism work for ordinary human beings, you have to have regulation," Dean said.

"In order to make capitalism work for ordinary human beings, you have to have regulation socialism," Dean meant.

[Always Right]

We all know that Enron was a bad thing, but we can't assume that he can't demagogue the issue and make reregulation sound like a good thing to the uninformed.

Democrats did not get much milage out of Enron in 2002 and they certainly won't get much out of it in 2004. I welcome Dean coming out as a big government Socialists. Shoot, even Clinton and Gore were both smart enough to know that people overwhelmingly in this country favor the concept of smaller government....unless it means freebies for them.

[jimkress]

"In order to make capitalism work for ordinary human beings, you have to have regulation," Dean said.

This is undisguised Fascism in the true sense of the word.

[Semper Paratus]

He's going morph into Eugene V. Debs by the convention.

[The Great RJ]

You would think that as a physician Dean would be fed up with government reglations telling him how to practice medicine. Maybe that tells what kind of doctor he was.

[Lael]

We have to be careful though and take him seriously. We all know that Enron was a bad thing, but we can't assume that he can't demagogue the issue and make reregulation sound like a good thing to the uninformed. We will have to answer every statement he makes.

Depending on one's point of view, Dean makes eminent sense, or one must hope he is defeated on foreign policy.

Look, Corporate America has fouled its own nest...estimated 90% of Mutual Funds involved in the Hedge Fund / front running / market timing / etc., etc., etc.

List ALL the abuses...REREGULATION of the Fortune 1000 is the answer.

Too bad the Foreign Policy, Gay Marriage, NAMBLA agenda is gonna sink the Democrats!

[lewislynn]

Electricity deregulation IS re-regulation.

There's not one "deregulated" electricity market that doesn't have some kind of price controls to make it appear it works...

Even in Texas where they tout their deregulation as a success some companies have to get permission from the (regulatory) PUC to adjust their rates, and then it's only allowed 3 times a year AND it has to be tied to the cost of natural gas...