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Rand will win no matter how much some people try to stop it.

Is he going to win because the people he might represent agree with his ideas? or some other reason?

Rand Paul: mouthpiece for Wall Street
Corporate groups that support Paul, like the so-called Coalition to Protect Kentucky Jobs and the National Right to Work [for less] Committee, are determined to prevent passage of the Employee Free Choice Act. The EFCA seeks to restore workers' rights on the job, including the right to form a union, which have been badly eroded over the last decades.

Further highlighting Paul's class allegiances, the tea party candidate recently said President's Obama criticism of BP and the oil spill was "un-American" ..."
http://www.peoplesworld.org/rand-paul-mouthpiece-for-wall-street/

Rand Paul: Opposes All Workers’ Rights
"We can expect millions more in campaign contributions from groups like the National Right to Work Committee and corporate-backed Republican front groups established by [Senate Minority Leader and Kentuckian] Mitch McConnell’s minions to elect their darling, Rand Paul.

The message should be clear: If you are not a wealthy shareholder or a corporate “person” you have inferior rights—if you are a worker you are on your own and you better watch out because “accidents happen.”
http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/07/09/rand-paul-opposes-all-workers-rights/
 
and this means that they'll be better off with federal control? like gulf oil wells were?
The Gulf oil wells weren't under anyone's supervision, the oil companies under the Bush 43 administration got a pass, and it caught up with us in the Obama administration. If regulation had not been ignored who knows what would be happening now. This does not give a pass to the Obama administration, but it does show regulation is needed and sometimes it is bigger than the locals can handle.
 
Rand Paul: Mine safety regulations aren’t needed since “no one will apply” for jobs at dangerous mines


Note to the wanna-be future senator from Kentucky:

Senators don't make "rules". Senators pass laws. Workplace safety rules are developed and promulgated by technical experts - under the authority of laws - in the appropriate executive agencies, with industry and public input.

That depends on the law. Since we like to stretch them pretty far, it wouldn't surprise me to see one lay out very specific rules.
 
why do liberals believe the federal government can simply take care of everything?
I don't believe they can, but I do believe there are some things that the states just can't get right and need the larger authority to enforce. I don't believe corporation, for the most part, will regulate themselves, wouldn't it be a perfect world if they did, so I believe that someone must represent us and keep us from corporate harm!
 
why do liberals believe the federal government can simply take care of everything?

I can't speak for all liberals and I don't believe the federal government can simply take care of everything, but I know for an absolute fact that when it comes to health and safety regulations for miners, the federal government has done a whole hell of a lot more to protect the health and safety of miners than local authorities. And it isn't really disputable.
 
I can't speak for all liberals and I don't believe the federal government can simply take care of everything, but I know for an absolute fact that when it comes to health and safety regulations for miners, the federal government has done a whole hell of a lot more to protect the health and safety of miners than local authorities. And it isn't really disputable.

i have yet to see you have an issue with the federal government taking over or controlling anything...

name one...i'm curious
 
I don't believe they can, but I do believe there are some things that the states just can't get right and need the larger authority to enforce. I don't believe corporation, for the most part, will regulate themselves, wouldn't it be a perfect world if they did, so I believe that someone must represent us and keep us from corporate harm!

why can't that be dealt with at the state level? why is it necessary to continue and continue to expand the federal government....that is not what this country was founded on.
 
why can't that be dealt with at the state level? why is it necessary to continue and continue to expand the federal government....that is not what this country was founded on.

This is why.

Don Blankenship, chief executive officer of Massey Energy Co., has fought with mine regulators, unions, residents of his town and even his personal maid.

His company regularly appeals fines for safety infractions. He has personally gone into mines to persuade workers to abandon union organizing efforts. Massey is fighting lawsuits that claim it contaminated groundwater in Blankenship’s town. A maid supplied by a company she claimed was a Massey unit was forced to fight all the way to West Virginia’s highest court to collect unemployment benefits."

http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...-fought-regulators-town-maid-as-coal-ceo.html
 
wow... froggy understood the question

name an issue that you believe the federal government shouldn't have control and it should be for the states....i have yet to see a post of yours that is for smaller federal government


Marriage.
 
Mott, this is exactly what they want! The Old South is their perfect model but they will settle for the early 1900's in the Appalachia coal country.
Hey that's ok as long as I get to be one of the capitalist with the golden parachute....if not...fuck that.
 
This is why.

Don Blankenship, chief executive officer of Massey Energy Co., has fought with mine regulators, unions, residents of his town and even his personal maid.

His company regularly appeals fines for safety infractions. He has personally gone into mines to persuade workers to abandon union organizing efforts. Massey is fighting lawsuits that claim it contaminated groundwater in Blankenship’s town. A maid supplied by a company she claimed was a Massey unit was forced to fight all the way to West Virginia’s highest court to collect unemployment benefits."

http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...-fought-regulators-town-maid-as-coal-ceo.html

nothing there is any reason to expand the federal the government
 
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