Editor’s note: U.S. News and World report points out some of the tenents of “Eisenhower Republicans.” You can’t help but notice the difference between their views and that of the extremists we encounter nowadays.
2) Government is not the problem, but government can’t solve every problem.
4) Government should empower consumers with “Goldilocks” regulation of free, fair marketplaces.
Empowering consumers means that we should regulate product safety, food safety, etc. Reasonable regulations are necessary to ensure that commerce is fair, free and competitive. For example, the federal government recently announced new regulations for credit card issuers. These regulations are meant to inform and help consumers make better choices while protecting them from aggressive rate hikes on existing balances.
Don’t like regulations? Few Republicans do. But think of how free enterprise would function without regulation. The best way to think of this is to imagine a football game with no referees and no rules whatsoever. Players and coaches are expected to call their own penalties. That is laissez-faire capitalism in a nutshell. Any sports fan knows this is ludicrous and would never work.
So we concede that some regulation is always necessary.
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Tea Party Congressmen accepting money from Wall Street:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/04/30/bloomberg_articlesM324IH1A74E901-M3ASG.DTL
Just read the jungle by Upton Sinclair or look into labor history of 70 hour work weeks and the unsafe working conditions forced upon workers. Those on the hard right have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to needed regulation and worker rights.
Ben- Especially on may 1, I couldn’t agree more! If it isn’t women’s rights, it’s workers rights, every day, under attack by the right.
Nor do many blue collar present and former union workers, and white collar union workers in the teacher’s union. But for the beaten until they’re dead or nearly so, brave souls who fought for workers rights and decent pay, some of my fellow teachers–one of which was my superior and asked me before accepting me at her location, “I hope you’re not a Clinton lover,”–would never have been able to drive around in their late model Corvettes. And, I think, I was probably the first union member from all the limbs of my family tree.