Further down the ladder of Freedom - Bush Signs Bill to Curb Class-Action Suits
Yahoo! News - Bush Signs Bill to Curb Class-Action Suits
These guys suck. The level of the freedom in the US just fell another couple notches under Bush's hands. Basically what the GOP has done is remove the ability for Class-action suits to be filed on a state level. Instead the suits will be directed to the Federal courts where Bush believes they are more likely to be more fairly carried out. By fairly, conservatives really mean that they don't want lawyers getting large amounts of money while the actual plaintiffs get a tiny fraction. I will agree with them there. This seems like a genuine problem, but this new method doesn't solve that problem it just makes the problem occur with less frequency. To effectively solve that problem it just requires the people filing the suits to demand better representation that isn't screwing them over. All Bush and the GOP have done is make the American people a little less free and allowed big business (or small business for that matter) to be a little more careless in their practices.
You might think:
Less free you say....less free! By golly, this is exactly what we need...LESS REGULATION makes us more free right?
Well yes, but in this case it is companies that become more free not the public as a whole.
To a certain degree, regulation does bind us. A Laissez Faire world would be where companies operate under zero regulation. However, it is always necessary of even the most Capitalist society that we have pillars that our capitalism is held up by. For example property rights are required just as the ability to enforce those property rights are required. There has to be a system in place to check those who are abusing their freedom. There can be no coercion in a free society and we must have a system to check that as well. Another required structure is the ability to punish those who behave frivolously.
Bush and his party are taking that away from us under the veil of saving us from evil lawyers and their exorbitant fees. He is not saving us. He is just taking away one more tool that we have to make sure that companies don't use toxic chemicals in their plastics or asbestos in their buildings. Without this tool of retribution how are we supposed to make sure they behave. Bush might turn and console you..."It's ok sonny we will make sure they don't do anything to hurt you." SCREW THAT! I thought you said less regulation...that would mean even more regulation if the government is going to take care of it. So Bush has taken away our tool and slipped it in the pocket of the Government because apparently we don't meet the IQ requirement to operate such heavy machinery.
Current Status: Regulated by Government = mammas boys
These guys suck. The level of the freedom in the US just fell another couple notches under Bush's hands. Basically what the GOP has done is remove the ability for Class-action suits to be filed on a state level. Instead the suits will be directed to the Federal courts where Bush believes they are more likely to be more fairly carried out. By fairly, conservatives really mean that they don't want lawyers getting large amounts of money while the actual plaintiffs get a tiny fraction. I will agree with them there. This seems like a genuine problem, but this new method doesn't solve that problem it just makes the problem occur with less frequency. To effectively solve that problem it just requires the people filing the suits to demand better representation that isn't screwing them over. All Bush and the GOP have done is make the American people a little less free and allowed big business (or small business for that matter) to be a little more careless in their practices.
You might think:
Less free you say....less free! By golly, this is exactly what we need...LESS REGULATION makes us more free right?
Well yes, but in this case it is companies that become more free not the public as a whole.
To a certain degree, regulation does bind us. A Laissez Faire world would be where companies operate under zero regulation. However, it is always necessary of even the most Capitalist society that we have pillars that our capitalism is held up by. For example property rights are required just as the ability to enforce those property rights are required. There has to be a system in place to check those who are abusing their freedom. There can be no coercion in a free society and we must have a system to check that as well. Another required structure is the ability to punish those who behave frivolously.
Bush and his party are taking that away from us under the veil of saving us from evil lawyers and their exorbitant fees. He is not saving us. He is just taking away one more tool that we have to make sure that companies don't use toxic chemicals in their plastics or asbestos in their buildings. Without this tool of retribution how are we supposed to make sure they behave. Bush might turn and console you..."It's ok sonny we will make sure they don't do anything to hurt you." SCREW THAT! I thought you said less regulation...that would mean even more regulation if the government is going to take care of it. So Bush has taken away our tool and slipped it in the pocket of the Government because apparently we don't meet the IQ requirement to operate such heavy machinery.
Current Status: Regulated by Government = mammas boys
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