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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRebekah Mercer states she is not racist. She doesn't want people to lack health
care. She just wants all the laws to be legislated at the State or municipal level. She want to destroy the federal government. All this in an OP ED in the Wall Street Journal. Why? Well only a big healthy federal government could take on corporations and win. States and municipalities can be played off each other by corporations acting of one philosophy. IMHO And as to her claim of not being racist she was the owner of Britebart News. Unlike government where change takes time, she could have instantaneously changed the content of the news. It would have taken a day at most to stop it.Day after day after day after day she chose not to.
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)Sophia4
(3,515 posts)She is either foolish or unintelligent.
The reality is that we are a country of over 300 million people.
Some laws and regulations are best passed and implemented by state and local governments and some by the federal government.
State governments and local governments cannot pass or enforce meaningful laws regarding many environmental issues because things like poisoned water and poisoned air move across the entire earth. And if the environment in agricultural states becomes putrid because companies are releasing poisons into the water and it ends up in the fields, we who live in other states pay the price because our food becomes poisonous.
If one state does not provide a decent education to its citizens, the whole country suffers. It is like that in many areas.
On the other hand, the more local education management, the better in my view.
applegrove
(118,659 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 15, 2018, 06:27 AM - Edit history (1)
laws. The country will not do anything about the environment. People will get sick and/die. Democracy will wither.
mitch96
(13,904 posts)She just want's all your blood and treasure to pay for it... It's the "I got mine, fuck you" syndrome that wealthy people have.. At least the wealthy people that I know...
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OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)culmination of the treason of US Oligarchs like Mercer, Wynn, Murdoch and the Kochs, and the supine weasels of the GOP. Employ the proven and successful tactics used against Hillary, and attack them for enabling Trump and Putin.
Bluepinky
(2,270 posts)The Wall Street Journal will never print an OP ED of what I think.
In the USA, money = speech = policy. It contradicts the Declaration of Independence that states all men are created equal.
Demsrule86
(68,576 posts)PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)She is a greedy, self serving piece of crap. She's not fooling me one iota.