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Old 05-18-2012, 08:59 PM   #1
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With any macro scale plan you're going to get waste. There will always be welfare cheats, Medicare fraud etc...while the majority are good people.

Same goes for business. Less regulation and responsible companies will benefit from the flexibility yet still do the right thing...and others will just pollute more or pass risk onto others to make a buck.

I don't see much difference.

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You can do away with most of the freeloading by restricting participants to
show proof every 2 weeks where they have looked for a job by listing the companies and telephone #s of where they looked as they go to pick up their checks at a govenmrnt office, not walk down to their mailboxes and collect a check.
Then there should be proof of citizenship to vote.
Those would be big steps forward, but what politcian would go along with either
of these? Not many, as liberal regulations produce the nanny state and along
with it the votes for free stuff.

Whatever the regulations, business must adhere to them or pay fines.

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Old 05-19-2012, 03:51 PM   #2
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You can do away with most of the freeloading by restricting participants to show proof every 2 weeks where they have looked for a job by listing the companies and telephone #s of where they looked as they go to pick up their checks at a govenmrnt office, not walk down to their mailboxes and collect a check. Then there should be proof of citizenship to vote.
Those would be big steps forward, but what politcian would go along with either of these?
I'm not sure either would produce a significant benefit.

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Whatever the regulations, business must adhere to them or pay fines.
But that's exactly Biden's point. The elite can use their incredible leverage to trump the public interest.

Take the recent JP Morgan 2 Billion dollar debacle. We have a global credit crisis and the response is regulation to help reign in risky behavior. The elite (in this case JP Morgan who's banking business is insured by taxpayers mind you) use their influence to delay the implementation of new rules so they can continue risky behavior without penalties.

Fortunately it's a big company that can absorb the loss, otherwise the taxpayer could have been held liable...Wait, didn't the taxpayer just loan the banks hundreds of billions of taxpayer money a few years ago because of banks taking massive risks allowed under law because they used their influence to shape regulation?

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Old 05-20-2012, 05:12 PM   #3
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But that's exactly Biden's point. The elite can use their incredible leverage to trump the public interest.



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But he doesn't have a problem along with Obama to take campaighn dollars from
the rich like Sorros, Hollywood, etc and etc to leverage their agenda.

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