Bi-partisan bastardry
Not to take away from the poetry slam that this blog is currently evolving into, but...
This is the kind of crap that gives fodder to both right wing and left wing critics of government.
In a way, the predicament is almost beautiful in how it clearly illustrates the manipulation of out-dated New Deal regulations by big business and how conservative (ostensibly libertarian) politicians and progressive (ostensibly populist) politicians are co-opted by those businesses.
I would venture to guess that most readers of this blog (whomever they might still be) have not ever wondered how the price of milk was set in this country. Well, now you know. I wish this were the only instance of big business paying big bucks to so-called free market conservatives to distort the market, and I wish this were the only instance of big business paying so-called progressive liberals to subvert regulations in service of higher profits, but it just isn't so.
This is the kind of crap that gives fodder to both right wing and left wing critics of government.
In a way, the predicament is almost beautiful in how it clearly illustrates the manipulation of out-dated New Deal regulations by big business and how conservative (ostensibly libertarian) politicians and progressive (ostensibly populist) politicians are co-opted by those businesses.
I would venture to guess that most readers of this blog (whomever they might still be) have not ever wondered how the price of milk was set in this country. Well, now you know. I wish this were the only instance of big business paying big bucks to so-called free market conservatives to distort the market, and I wish this were the only instance of big business paying so-called progressive liberals to subvert regulations in service of higher profits, but it just isn't so.
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