[goat granny]

The framers also didn’t conceive the idea of 50% taxation, EPA, keeping water from farmers because of a minnow, not allowing a land owner to till a field because of a rat or bug, or needing the governments permission to dig a well or where one could put up a barn, or tanks used against the citizens. People with your crappy attitude are the reason jobs over out of the country....In the 1800’s unions were necessary for safety reasons, not for running the shops they work in....or a state not being free to choose not to have a union...Your head must be stuck in an interesting place.....

[nomad]

Wheres the viking kitties when you need them?

[teflon9]

Hon, all those problems you've mentioned are true, but they started getting really bad after big industries started to move offshore at the end of the seventies. And don't forget, big corporations can and do hire armies of lobbyists (to say nothing of bribes campaign contributions that can swamp almost any stupid government initiative if they have a mind to so. No, the companies moved production offshore not to escape mindless regs (which they could lobby and bribe "contribute" against), but to simply make as much profit as possible, and if the American worker gets effed in the process, well, tough darts for him. That's one of the major flaws of globalization; it tosses national affilation and patriotism right out the window.