I think the GOP is against regulation because they know that science will discouver how dangerous

[applegrove]

certain chemicals/products are in the next 50 years and all the cancer they cause, and they don't want people living a long, long time: social security, medicare and all. That is also why the GOP wants medicare to be vouchers now, with the funding locked in to today's medical costs. So that people will only be able to get the more expensive medical care, care that is being developed as we speak (stem cells, etc.), if they buy more expensive insurance or have the money to pay for it out of pocket.

[PSPS]

1. It's simpler than that.

Republicans dislike regulation in the same way that gangsters dislike police departments.

[applegrove]

2. Oh for sure they treat government like a competitor that must be crushed. For sure they

would sometimes make a little bit more money with less regulation..then again it could be a decade that we are in this economic crisis caused by financial deregulations. So if fact we have proof the deregulation may not actually make money for the shareholders in the end. It certainly made every worse for the average person. But it certainly made big bonuses for the ceo. I was just wondering if we could add all the science that is being done right now and in the future, and the increasing regulations that will be required because the science is being done, to the discussion of why the gop wants fewer regulations. One thing we know for sure about any GOP position: it isn't about making people better off. None of their policies are. Why OWS resonates with so many.

[Frank Cannon]

11. Well said.

That's really all there is to it.

[KT2000]

3. sometimes regulation implies liability

I think you are right. Regulations are enforceable responsibility.
The EPA has only banned a very few chemicals while research continues to show that there are many chemicals in use that are known to cause neurological problems in children, cancers, birth defects, auto-immune diseases and on and on. One must read the environmental health literature to learn about this because the avenues to mainstream medicine and public policy have been effectivekly blocked. It is more important to protect the corporations that make money.

A corporation than manufactures a pesticide associated with breast cancer, then bought a pharmaceutical company that manufactures cancer drugs.

[ingac70]

4. Science already knows what is dangerous.

At my former place of employment, we worked with chemicals banned in all of South America... they had deemed them too toxic to allow around people.

[JDPriestly]

5. I don't think it ties in with Social Security and Medicare,

but, yes, many believe that the causes for specific cancers will be identifiable in the future.

Some cancer is genetic. Certain breast cancers fit that category. I will leave it at that.

[applegrove]

6. Do you think the Ryan plan, for vouchers based on today's medicare costs, isn't a plan

to get the government out of paying future medicare expenses? Would you go that far?

[JDPriestly]

8. The Ryan Plan is a way to give insurance companies a bigger cut of the Medicare dollar.

It may be a way to limit Medicare costs. I think doctors will revolt if they bring in the Ryan Plan.

[laundry_queen]

7. Just today

some new study came out linking processed meats (and likely nitrites) with pancreatic cancer.

I personally think to myself when stuff like this comes out - be ready for an onslaught of "processed meats are the new healthy for you food" clips on your local news, paid for by the meat industry.

[applegrove]

9. They've actually come out with processed meats that have no preservatives - no doubt realizing

the jig was up on nitrates. This is what the GOP wants... where the "market" only takes care of issues. A bad health report is seen as a "marketing opportunity". Creepy. Especially since it looks like the neocons prefer to put 'new information' out of the public realm. I mean that in the utopia some GOPers want, you would have to pay to get the information that nitrates are bad (I heard they caused parkinsons' too).