OK, Bill - Let's assume you are totally correct.

So let's repeal all laws made since 1959.  This would include all of the civil rights and equal employment laws, all environmental laws.

There could be some of that stuff lost at no detriment to society, IMO.



Let's also go back to the tax laws of 1959 when we had unlimited deductions for "business use" of yachts, country clubs, and business entertainment of any sort.  That sure favored the little guy, didn't it?



That there was a time when corpoprations had a clear "subsidy" at the cost of the avg. guy is a given. To believe that seeing that swept away w/o more stuff given them that we arent so privvy to may be a bit myopic, based on the way I see the regulators regulating those companies.

Also repeal all of the financial laws that restrict insider trading, allow for corporate oversight, etc.  Bernie Madoff would still be a free man.


Back to ridicullum, Glass Steagall did get repealled & thats where we got the derivitaves from. Geitner refused to tell CONGress where the $$$ went.. REallly? & he wasnt hauled off in cuffs? OOOplease..

Really want to do all of that?

Anyone who seriously thinks that "big business" runs the show today ought to read what it was like in 1959.  Business interests have lost about 90% of the clout that they had 50 years ago, or even in the 1970s.


I dont think so.

I'm all for the state workers getting minimum wage for a few months.  Let them live like other working class people do.  Maybe better yet, let's just make sure every one on a highway crew is required to have a shovel in his hand, rather than having 3 of them watching one guy dig.


Yea, But the Gunnator kept HIS paycheck,,, let that clown get paid a dollar a year. Hed still be over paid.

Since the recession in building hit, building inspectors in my town have so little to do that FOUR of them showed up the other days for a simple framing inspection at one of the few houses under construction.

Heaven forbid that the city would actually lay them off, like a business would.  And, my daughter is the ONLY member of city council opposing a doubling of the city's income tax rates, and giving the city employees a 6% raise across the board.


Govt has been operating as a parasite for decades. I saw that as a child. If a man ran his biz the way the goobs run theirs, he'd go to jail.

That's what's wrong.  If we respected business again, like people did in the 50s, instead of deriding business interests, and realized that business is what made America great, maybe we'd get somewhere again.


If biz respected the people the way they did when I was a kid, things would be different. Back then, they kept their people, & retired them. Now, as retirement approaches, they try to ditch them so as to avoid the pension [pmnts.
Nafta has been a disaster.



My mom worked in a small factory as a payroll clerk, and she respected the owner of the place.  She never even used his first name, he was always Mr. Guthrie.  Long after he had retired, he actually came back here from Florida to attend her funeral; yes, the funeral of a payroll clerk.  Would he have done that for someone who hated him? I doubt it.

But all we do now is villify business - oh well, we're getting what we deserve when we elect a Pres. to run this nation who never had a real job, nor even managed a lemonade stand.  Our priorites are just out of whack.  But again, it all goes back to who votes nowadays - those who have no stake in the outcome swing more elections than you can imagine.