It used to be the advice offered to tourists visiting Mexico and other Latin-American countries. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), it may well become the warning to tourists visiting the U.S.
While the more prominent GOPers\teavangelists are waging culture war by trying to place the lives of women at risk due to pregnancy below the potential life of an unborn fetus, by attempting to create a WASP theocracy, and by removing access to health care from the reach of nearly all Americans, Good Rep. Issa is waging war on our citizens by attempting to remove from the books financial, technical, industrial, and other regulations that American corporations find onerous and “job killing.”
“Job killing” is nothing but a new propaganda sound-byte created by the GOPer fiction machine to convince the unemployed and the under-employed that regulations limiting financial piracy and manipulation, regulations enforcing clean air and water standards, and any other regulation and/or law that might possibly drop a CEO’s bonus from 8 figures to 7 figures. “Job killing” is a flat-out GOPer lie. “Job killing” is found in corporate boardrooms, not in government regulations. “Job killing” is a company doubling the required workload while refusing to hire back laid-off former employees or to hire new ones. “Job killing” is outsourcing jobs to India, Mexico, or China rather than building new factories in the U.S. “Job killing” is siting software and hardware support in Bangalore.
“Job killing” is attached to everything the GOP\teavangelists want to reverse, repeal, renege, or repudiate. “Job killing” is a myth spun by GOPer\teavangelists who are elected by the populace but who are paid by corporate lobbyists to place the profits of huge corporations ahead of the good of the nation. It is about poisoning our waters and our air for the convenience and profit of coal companies, mineral miners, oil companies, and timber companies; while allowing greed to overrule ethics and law in the financial houses that control commerce.
“Job Killing” is a myth! Those jobs were killed off one by one and one thousand by one thousand as regulations were removed during the days of Saint Ronnie. They were lost when even the least amount of regulation to preserve the environment became intolerable to corporations American in name and PO Box only. They vanished when Wal-Mart demanded that quality be subjugated to ever-cheaper quantity. They vanished when Unions forgot that the nation needs affordable labor and when unions forgot that they were not intended to rival corporate pays scales for executives. The jobs fled offshore when people who should have known better voted for corporate shills, theocrats, and loud-mouthed, poorly educated candidates with nothing to offer but burlesque stage pageantry gimmicks.
As Issa and friends find ways to overturn and remove environmental regulations, job safety regulations, we’ll see the true promise of the reactionary right. We’ll return to those thrilling days of yesteryear when rivers caught fire, when children and the elderly couldn’t breathe outdoors, when acid rain killed entire forests. We’ll see our few remaining workers made chronically ill by their jobs, which will deny them health care benefits while blaming them for becoming ill. We’ll see more workplace injuries even as workplaces become ever more scarce.
As predicted by hundreds of science-fiction writers, we’ll barrel past declining nation status to full-blown, third world, oligarchy. The wealthy will have sufficient money to buy breathable air, drinkable water, and unadulterated food and medications. Everyone else will not. The two-tiered society that our GOP\teavangelist free-marketeers long for will finally be here. Thank you, Mr. Issa. Watch your name share recognition with notables such as Vidkun Quisling!
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