Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Issa Gonna Be A Long Two Years, Part 2

Republican House Oversight committee chair Rep. Darrell Issa has literally been given a laundry list of concerns by big business to get rid of as many regulations and consumer protections as possible.  After all, these are the corporation that have paid for the GOP, and they want their money's worth.

The one that most neatly reflects the priorities of the conservative movement comes from the Heritage Foundation, which is asking Issa to attack decades worth of regulatory and statutory worker and consumer protections.
Here's the laundry list:
  • Individual health insurance mandate
  • Employer health insurance mandate
  • Minimum health insurance benefit standards
  • All future Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulations
  • Limiting debit card fees
  • Transparency for shareholders
  • Credit card regulation
  • Incandescent light bulb phase out
  • Broader energy efficiency standards
  • Fuel efficiency standards
  • Carbon pollution regulation
  • Auto tailpipe standard
  • Renewable fuel standards
  • Low-income housing promotion
  • Corporate accounting requirements
  • Net neutrality
  • Corporate media ownership rules
  • Dairy price controls
  • Domestic sugar subsidization
Read the whole thing here. 

All of those have to go, according to conservatives.  Too much regulation of the corporations that fund the GOP, and apparently Issa job as seen through the eyes of corporate America is to get rid of these pesky rules and regs so that the Mighty Hand Of The Free Market can control the world.  Of course, the corporations control the Mighty Hand, so it's all good if you're them.

If you're a consumer, well, government oversight's not for the little people. You don't have enough money "free speech" to make yourself heard.
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2 comments:

  1. bughunterFebruary 1, 2011 at 3:49 PM

    Yes, too much regulation, and too effective enforcement of the regulations in place, are the reasons why we're in the spot we're in today.

    Why, if we could have prevented or repealed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, the Consumer Credit Protection Act of 1968, the Clean Air Act of 1963, the Water Quality Act of 1965, the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, and the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 19th Amendments, also, then we could have achieved (as early as 1939) the Capitalist Paradise that the founding fathers intended.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 1, 2011 at 11:32 PM

    I wonder which corporation will own me in the end? I hope it's one of the entertainment corporations, because that at least sounds like fun. If I must drink sludge and rotten cat meat after working a 20 hour day, at least I shall be entertained by a colorful mascot within certain parameters that prevent unauthorized use of the trademark.

    Paradise.

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