over there," Romney said, referring to a visit to China after his 2008 presidential run. "How quickly they can build things. How productive they are as a society. You should see their airports compared to our airports, their highways, their train systems. They're moving quickly, in part because the regulators see their job as encouraging private people."

fouled water and air

and other misgivings.

That is the vision Mittens has.

then go back into the same industries after they leave "public" service.

You can't get much more friendly than that without penetration.

When persons charged with regulating an industry are 'friends' of the industry, the industry controls its regulation, and so the regulation achieves no object but maximization of industry profits. The situation which obtains is approximately that of a 'wide-open' town where the gamblers and brothel-keepers stand in tight with the chief of police. Doubtless this is Willard's ideal of governance, but it is not most people's....

And a few other things like air that no one could breathe, water no one could drink, workplaces that were unsafe.....

Why can't you get the picture???

........right before they eat them, that is.

What a tool.*


*Apologies to all shovels, rakes, hammers, etc.

...except we'll be the ones getting f***ed.

WASHINGTON — Federal workers in Lakewood who oversee offshore oil and gas drilling had sex and used drugs with energy company employees, provided information to industry favorites, and accepted thousands of dollars in gifts while handling contracts worth billions of dollars, investigators said Wednesday.

Employees at the Minerals Management Service, including the former head of the Lakewood division, repeatedly and flagrantly violated ethics rules over a four-year period, the Interior Department's inspector general said in three reports.

Investigators discovered "a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity," in one section of the Lakewood office, Interior Inspector General Earl E. Devaney wrote in a letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne. In the Royalty in Kind division, "between 2002 and 2006, nearly one-third of the staff socialized with, and received a wide array of gifts and gratuities from, oil and gas companies," with whom those workers were conducting business, one report said.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_10431998

Now, I remember that story.

If Romney makes it into the general election campaign, the first debate should be fairly interesting...

Romney: "Regulators should be friends with businesses."

Obama (holding up the picture of the river that's on fire): "And this is the result of that."

What business cheats want, business cheats should get.