FYI, you know those "job-killing regulations"?

[damonm]

Turns out, not so much...

In 2010, 0.3 percent of the people who lost their jobs in layoffs were let go because of “government regulations/intervention.” By comparison, 25 percent were laid off because of a drop in business demand.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/does-government-regulation-really-kill-jobs-economists-say-overall-effect-minimal/2011/10/19/gIQALRF5IN_story.html?hpid=z1

ANOTHER BS Rethug talking point bitten in the ass by cold hard FACT.

[zbdent]

1. and those "tax cuts" which were creating the jobs?

um, what jobs?

[demosincebirth]

2. The deregulation of the Trucking Industry in 1979 cost 350,000 high paying

Teamster jobs. Sad to say, but it was pushed through congress by Ted Kennedy and signed by Carter.

[damonm]

3. And we've seen just how beneficial airline deregulation WASN'T...

:grr:

[demosincebirth]

8. Airline deregulation was in the same bill.

[Enrique]

4. also, some people owe their jobs to regulations

companies have to increase hiring to keep in compliance.

[damonm]

5. Shameless kick...

[meow2u3]

6. Regulation kills jobs, all right

When Repukes mean by "jobs" is not an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. This is what they mean by "jobs":

Insider trading, securities and commodities fraud, fraudulent foreclosures on houses to which they don't even own the original mortgage, scamming investors, extorting the government for bailouts, etc., leaving the people to hold an empty bag.

DUers, rethugs are blowing the dog whistle again. "Job-killing regulations" is code for "our corporate masters won't be able to run scams on the 99% with impunity anymore."

[dreamnightwind]

7. Regulation rocks!

Seriously, I'm not a big fan of capitalism, but junking it for a whole new system is radical change, perhaps beyond what we can or should attempt. If we're going to stay with capitalism, we have to worship regulation as the only way to tame the beast.

The right wing/corporate linguists have done a great job demonizing regulations, and we need to do as good a job or better at selling them. Without proper regulation, capitalism is cancer.