Plus, all you can eat.

Sorry, my grandpa must have made that joke a million times.

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This.

A CDL will get you job if you want to work and can pass a drug test.

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Consider the source but this came across facebook and I thought it would be a fun read for Brick. His head might explode.

http://allenbwest.com/2015/08/trump-wei ... -is-nasty/

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Rick is killing it in this thread.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Without those pesky regulations, you have a fertilizer plant in Texas that explodes, killing 15, injuring more than 160 people, and destroying 150 buildings.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
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How about the internet? Seacrest owes Al Gore one.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
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This guy gets it.

Enforcing and strengthening of protected industries, killing competition and raising the barrier of entry into sectors of business.

Okay, but I think you're completely missing BigFan's point.

Like, totally missing it.

As paradoxically as it sounds it is correct. The biggest impediment to business is businessmen themselves. Self professed capitalists often try to create quasi monopolies by creating regulations which keep the little guy out. Another dirty little secret. There are lobbyists who seek to create regulations that are designed to keep small businesses out. That's the part they don't want anyone to know. They perform such actions all while professing their love of free market capitalism. It's a joke.

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Lots of two faced snakes out there. I've never argued for a whole sale stripping away of "regulations" of all types and then letting it all shake out. But, as you and Big mentioned, more regulations don't necessarily =/= better outcomes. Entrenched industries want to protect their status via any means necessary...creating excess regulations is one way.

I got it, I was making a counterpoint.

Regulations is a word like taxes to many on the right. Bad in any context.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
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Not really.
He forgot that garbage men drive trucks, and that's more dangerous than being a cop or in the military!

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I'm not going to be stuck on an island with bRick I don't care how much we could charge.

I don't think I could drive a garbage truck.

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I'm not sure why you'd be laughing at that since it is your bright idea that anyone who doesn't like their white collar working conditions should become a blue collar worker. spanky accidentally mocked you instead of me!

I also should point out that I never said being a truck driver is more dangerous than being in the military.

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That's a championship-caliber GIF right there.

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Some of the most highly regulated and centralized economies of the 20th century also experienced the most rapid and sustained growth--Japan, South Korea, Singapore, etc (see the collected works of Chalmers Johnson--beginning with his early, groundbreaking study of the Japanese economy--for more on this). Regulation and centralization are not necessarily the foes of economic prosperity. We should also consider that the "golden age of the American economy" is widely considered to be the 1950s and 1960s, an era of massive growth for the U.S. economy, and a period in which economic activity was governed by a more extensive set of regulations than exist today. Beginning in the Reagan era, many governmental regulations were eased and regulatory bodies de-funded. This neoliberal approach to governing helped create the bubble economy of the mid-1990s and the mortgage crisis of the 2000s.

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Funny

How about working in a tuna cannery?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bum ... en-n408721

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Because once again you just try and create an argument where one doesn't exist.

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What was the global economy like in the 1950's and 60's like? What were the state of the major non-U.S. industrialized powers like? I get your point but the U.S. was pretty much the only major power that had a positive demographic trend as well as not being completely blown to rubble. It would be next to impossible to no have a rapidly growing economy just from expanding demographics and pent up demand at home and abroad.

Also, again, I don't think BigFan is making the arguement for no regulations so fertilizer plants blow up or MBS bundles go to redline...his point (I think) is that large corporations use regulations like a weapon to smash competition and enforce defacto monopolies which is a negative thing.

That is all.

Happy Friday.

No, it's not. Assembly lines by their nature managed employees by the second.

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Which was LTG's point and is exactly right.

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Unions negotiated reasonable expectations (although I'm sure many might suggest they negotiated slacker production) of workers on assembly lines. Without such union protection a Jeff Bezos is free to work his employees to the point of karoshi like a bunch of mules.

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So we are in agreement that what Bezos is currently doing is nothing new.

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Your solution to others who didn't like their work environment to become garbagemen and then complained about your work enviornment.

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I just charge my clients more for my time and they pay me.



No complaints here.

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eggzactly. more gov't regs helps the entrenched businesses and leads to less competition.

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