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More Government to Protect Us From Ourselves
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About the Author
Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition for Urban Renewal & Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty. Parker the author of White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay. 
As usual, Star, you begin with a perverse frame. Anyone with two eyes, two ears, and a modicum of good sense can see that Wall Street, Big Oil, Big Insurance, PhArma and their cohorts have devoured the flesh off the American carcass. These wolves most obviously cannot be allowed to play without adult supervision.
Just in the past two weeks, we’ve been subjected to salmonella in our egg supply. This could have been easily caught and prevented thru inspection and vaccination of fowl. The costs of BP’s Oil Spill in the Gulf are humongous and will probably be with us for a generation, if not longer. Again, preventable. We have paid billions in treasure for a Wall Street uninhibited by commonsense regulations and consumed by greed.
The examples go on and on. Nice try on portraying Big Government as the avaricious one. You’ve had some takers, but the truth will out and we’ll get after corporations like Enron, Blackwater, Halliburton, AIG, etc., who fleece the taxpayers, then take a hike. Did you notice that Erik Prince says he’s moving to Abu Dhabi? Big-time Christian American like him….hmm….wonder why that would be?????
Harder to get credit? You say that like it’s a bad thing! onder if I’ll still be getting daily offers from Citibank, Chase, Amex, and the dozens of crappy banks I’ve never heard of that have made a cottage industry out of snaring unsuspecting credit-seekers into the downward spiral of debt.
But why attack the government? Why not hold the banksters responsible? I’ll grant you the relationships between the international banking cartels and our federal government have become far too close over the decades, but why do you wait until someone tries to regulate bank cards before you become interested? There are two sides here, and it appears you’re shilling for the “screwing middle America is good business” side.