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(Labspaces.net) Scary Environmental deregulation would save business, create jobs, cause a 450% increase in birth defects, stimulate the economy...wait, what?   (labspaces.net) divider line 155
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vpb [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 11:41:06 AM
Have you seen how well they can play "dueling banjos"? Defect indeed.
 
2011-10-21 12:00:36 PM
I don't know. I used to be for environmental regulations, but Saturday Night Live, which sucks today, did some of their best stuff when Love Canal and Three Mile Island were going on. Plus, you know, flipper babies NEVER stop being funny. Amirite?
 
2011-10-21 12:06:16 PM
Does this actually have to be said?
 
2011-10-21 12:16:10 PM
Those babies can be comforted by the fact that they can boycott the companies which caused them birth defects through apathy or miscalculations. Then surely those companies will learn a lesson, and all will be well.
 
2011-10-21 12:20:04 PM
Sure, all you left wing wackos are fine with evolution until it gives someone a mutation that you don't like.
 
2011-10-21 12:25:26 PM
GAT_00: Does this actually have to be said?

In this current climate of "regulations are destroying businesses", I'd say yes, it needs to be said.

At some point we as a nation are going to have to remember humanity is more important than profits. I'm saddened that so many of my Christian relatives have forgotten this.
 
2011-10-21 12:27:35 PM
But there's a good chance these would only affect someone else's babies, right?

I mean, even If that happens, I can still keep the money....
 
2011-10-21 12:28:29 PM
...because fark babies.
 
2011-10-21 12:36:24 PM
The-Brain: ...because fark babies.

I agree. If babies wouldn't be such dicks, we'd probably care more about keeping them from getting tumors and stuff.
 
2011-10-21 12:59:48 PM
We don't need environmental regulation anymore. This isn't the 1890s where corporations raped the environment because of the lack environmental regulations... Wait a second.
 
2011-10-21 01:56:24 PM
The-Brain: ...because fark babies.

They bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into.
 
2011-10-21 01:58:40 PM
One person's cost savings is another person's cost increase. For example, GE got to pollute the Hudson River and save money in the 20th century and everybody whose livelihood relied on fishing in the Hudson lost their businesses. Win lose.
 
2011-10-21 02:09:02 PM
But think of how many jobs those mutations will create: prosthetic companies, physical and mental therapists, in-home care employees, R&D docs to figure out just what toxic broth did what, gene therapists to work on cures... Drug companies to patent the cures, slick ad agencies to make the commercials advertising the drugs...

All those mutant kids could really be the shot in the arm the medical industry is looking for to boost lagging profits, and it could raise many boats with its warm, toxic tide.
 
2011-10-21 02:24:18 PM
The-Brain: ...because fark babies.

i105.photobucket.com
 
2011-10-21 02:42:51 PM
Nothing in the article about job creation, so I'm not really sure where the headline came from.
 
2011-10-21 03:18:23 PM
jbuist: Nothing in the article about job creation, so I'm not really sure where the headline came from.

It probably came from every Republican jobs bill introduced this session, where deregulation is explicitly linked to job creation.
 
2011-10-21 03:29:19 PM
BigTuna: jbuist: Nothing in the article about job creation, so I'm not really sure where the headline came from.

It probably came from every Republican jobs bill introduced this session, where deregulation is explicitly linked to job creation.


Deregulation does not have to mean pouring benzylated alkenes directly into ground water reservoirs. Sometimes it means that health insurers are not forced to include prenatal coverage and birth control to 50+ year old women in all their policies, regardless of customer want or need.

Just saying.
 
2011-10-21 03:30:03 PM
jbuist: Nothing in the article about job creation, so I'm not really sure where the headline came from.

Um, from every "conservative" talking point since the beginning of the Obama administration...?
 
2011-10-21 03:30:37 PM
So this would stimulate the health care/custodial care industry. Yeah, that's EXACTLY what we need. More overall drain on productivity.
 
2011-10-21 03:31:57 PM
Deregulation is awesome, but there must also be tort reform along with it. Otherwise you know some stupid libs are going to file a class action alleging that their precious snowflake only has cancer because of some big bad corporation. The ironic part is that radiation actually CURES cancer. Just ask Mario Lemeiux. Anyway I find it hilarious that libs support abortion but then once the baby is born they are all concerned about "birth defects". Yeah, NOW you care about babies. Also I am a troll.
 
2011-10-21 03:33:59 PM
Tip: DON'T GIS anencephaly - just don't.

Don't even Wikipedia it.
 
2011-10-21 03:35:03 PM
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Sure, all you left wing wackos are fine with evolution until it gives someone a mutation that you don't like.

I'll take adamantium claws, kthxbye
 
2011-10-21 03:35:09 PM
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Do Not Want.
 
2011-10-21 03:35:29 PM
domenad: BigTuna: jbuist: Nothing in the article about job creation, so I'm not really sure where the headline came from.

It probably came from every Republican jobs bill introduced this session, where deregulation is explicitly linked to job creation.

Deregulation does not have to mean pouring benzylated alkenes directly into ground water reservoirs. Sometimes it means that health insurers are not forced to include prenatal coverage and birth control to 50+ year old women in all their policies, regardless of customer want or need.

Just saying.


So why are they laying the foundation to remove those coverages for ALL women?

/'just saying' is another way of saying "I'm a douchebag"
 
2011-10-21 03:37:46 PM
DontMakeMeComeBackThere: Tip: DON'T GIS anencephaly - just don't.

Don't even Wikipedia it.


Why would you do that? Because you said don't, I did

farker
 
2011-10-21 03:38:38 PM
If our babbies are born with three bad eyes, they're going to need glasses. And someone is then going to have to invent and manufacture three lens glasses. And then we're going to need bigger eyeglass cases.

Don't tell me deregulation won't create jobs.
 
2011-10-21 03:38:39 PM
impaler: We don't need environmental regulation anymore. This isn't the 1890s where corporations raped the environment because of the lack environmental regulations... Wait a second.

Environmental regs in China still haven't caught up to the 1890's.
 
2011-10-21 03:38:55 PM
If it weren't for that commie Nixon the damn water and air would already be ruined and we wouldn't be needing to re-visit this issue
 
2011-10-21 03:39:06 PM
DontMakeMeComeBackThere: Tip: DON'T GIS anencephaly - just don't.

Don't even Wikipedia it.


You weren't joking. I'll never sleep soundly again.
 
2011-10-21 03:39:23 PM
BigTuna: jbuist: Nothing in the article about job creation, so I'm not really sure where the headline came from.

It probably came from every Republican jobs bill introduced this session, where deregulation is explicitly linked to job creation.


But you see, we need deregulation. Right now, a Trillionaire can't just buy everything up. If he could, it'd pay the Billionaires. Those Billionaires would pay some Millionaires. And those hawd wooking Millionaires are the Job Cree-ators. Gov't has been meddling in regulating business for too long, besides we ALL know how expensive a good government is, we currently have the best you can buy!
 
2011-10-21 03:39:25 PM
Birth defects are like cancer.

They increase GDP.

Why do you hate capitalism sub ?
 
2011-10-21 03:40:05 PM
The-Brain: ...because farking causes babies.

ftfy
 
2011-10-21 03:41:30 PM
More mutants to work the Koch mines!
 
2011-10-21 03:41:52 PM
Well you know we can trust big business and government to do right by us. All these regulations have been holding all the rivers in the country should be able to catch fire.
 
2011-10-21 03:42:07 PM
Diversity is the spice of life
 
2011-10-21 03:42:11 PM
Now, remove the "de" from the second word in the headline. Resubmit and greenlight.

Response from left: This is the most trolltastic, trollicious, trollerific headline ever submitted, subtard!! The article is about China. Rural China. It compares the conditions there to those in the US one hundred years ago. It says they heat their homes with coal. Who does that here? How did this get greenlighted? You must be racist. The mod is too. Also, eat a dick and I farked your mom.

/OK, continue ranting.
 
2011-10-21 03:42:26 PM
domenad: Deregulation does not have to mean pouring benzylated alkenes directly into ground water reservoirs. Sometimes it means that health insurers are not forced to include prenatal coverage and birth control to 50+ year old women in all their policies, regardless of customer want or need.

Just saying.


I suppose you are saying older women don't need that coverage so why force insurance companies to offer it?

Then, please explain to me how covering that class of people will costs insurance companies money?
 
2011-10-21 03:44:15 PM
if we go around keeping pollution out of everything, there will be no incentive for babies to AVOID pollution. Gotta learn somehow, and this is a perfect example of Survival of the Fittest.

Am I trolling right? :)

Sarcasm here, folks. Don't bother ranting at me.
 
2011-10-21 03:44:27 PM
Don't anybody tell Gary Johnson or Ron Paul that.
 
2011-10-21 03:44:32 PM
i582.photobucket.com
 
2011-10-21 03:45:33 PM
downpaymentblues: At some point we as a nation are going to have to remember humanity is more important than profits.

What socialist, European hell-hole are you from?
 
2011-10-21 03:45:36 PM
If I have my choice of this or 10% unemployment, then I guess I'll have to take the unemployment thing.
 
2011-10-21 03:45:55 PM
A Wild Snorlax: DontMakeMeComeBackThere: Tip: DON'T GIS anencephaly - just don't.

Don't even Wikipedia it.

You weren't joking. I'll never sleep soundly again.


While you're at it, don't GIS "brachytherapy" either.

Every time someone rails on about Chinese companies eating our lunch because of lower regulatory compliance and labor costs, consider what life is like in China. Even for the Olympics they couldn't get the smog down to "bad day in '70s LA" levels, their freshwater supplies are universally contaminated with all manner of industrial and agricultural toxins, and the whole place is coated in a fine sheen of mercury. Oh, and labor practices there, which have improved greatly since even the 90s, still suck total ass.

When you want everything to be super cheap, it is difficult to then expect nice things as a result.
 
2011-10-21 03:46:20 PM
I just don't get all the flipper baby hate.

Don't you people at least like sideshows? Where are they going to get their talent if we quit dumping toxins into the water supply and the air?


A vote for the GOP is a vote for flipper babies!
 
2011-10-21 03:48:19 PM
well, China and India are beating us in the children with too many toes category.
 
2011-10-21 03:49:18 PM
But would there be jobs for the retards?
 
2011-10-21 03:49:36 PM
jbuist: Nothing in the article about job creation, so I'm not really sure where the headline came from.

It's cool brah. You uncapped a 40 and started your weekend early. We understand. Enjoy.

img.photobucket.com
 
2011-10-21 03:49:47 PM
Sounds like it is time to buy stock in pharma and related medical providers...
 
2011-10-21 03:49:58 PM
frenchcheesemuseum: [i582.photobucket.com image 468x363]

Cuyahoga?
 
2011-10-21 03:50:10 PM
domenad: Deregulation does not have to mean pouring benzylated alkenes directly into ground water reservoirs

Of course it doesn't have to mean that, but in our reality it does.
 
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