754 - "The PURE FOOD AND DRUG LAWS are far more relevant, as to the quality of the food we eat, than any works of fiction."
And just how do you think those laws got passed? Upton Sinclair.
"Teddy Roosevelt,the "TRUST BUSTER",went after monopolies,but he didn't really do anything to keep workers from serfdom."
He sure did, he reigned in Rockefeller and the other monopolists, who would have had everyone in serfdom to their corporate monopolies.
yawn - as another said.
XBOB you have lived your life off of "evil corporations" or the government. You don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to biting the hands that feed you.
Upton Sinclair was NOT the catalyst,nor the cynosure of the PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACTS. Neither did his book do anything much to the CBOT's ways of operating.
Congress passes laws and dear old Upton never did win a seat,Bob.
Not "everyone" worked for the railroads,oil business,etc., so claiming that all would have been in thrall of those " evil" Robber Barons, without good old Teddy R.,is hyperbolic, nauseating bloviating;not to mention revisionist history. And,in point of fact, men were still "serfs",well into the mid 20th century ( think coal miners ),which easily refutes your spurious statements.
Yes, your posts are rather yawn inducing, when they aren't hysterical laughter producing, from the laughably rotten,factless,error filled contents. ;^)