When public safety regulations cut in to the obscene profits that the Industrial Elite were already making, RepubliCon politicians reacted by simply putting their campaign-contribution corporate chronies in charge of the very agencies that regulate them and keep them from engaging in unethical behavior!! (such as the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Food and Drug Administration.)
These minions of the corporate right-wing then proceeded to lower and even eradicate public safety regulations. Indeed, since the Republican take over in the 1980s, the consumer protection agency has had its budget slashed in half!
What has been the result of these cutbacks to "Big Government". . . ?
The result has been thousands upon thousands of people have been seriously hurt and even killed. (Huffington 08)
What has been the RepubliCon response to all of these injuries and deaths . . . ?
To advocate for Tort reform, which would put limits on how much these corporations could be sued.
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