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[sammygoliath.livejournal.com]

I don't get it. Deregulation of what?

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Deregulation of industries such as the oil industry.

[sammygoliath.livejournal.com]

You believe that deregulation always bad?

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

No. I took the OP's image as satirical.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

Do you believe that deregulation is always good?

[sammygoliath.livejournal.com]

Most definitely not!

The image seems sarcastic in nature, and I don't understand what it is referring to.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Reagen and republicans taut this idea of deregulation--and the govt getting *out* of regulating business--this is obviously a bad idea.

Yet they keep pushing it.

[sammygoliath.livejournal.com]

It offends me to the funny bone!

I better one would be a picture of the oil slick with that same message. Or a picture of some fishermen looking into the slick would be even better.

[sammygoliath.livejournal.com]

From Wikipedia:

Oil policy

At the beginning of his presidency, Reagan ended the price controls on domestic oil which had been started by Richard Nixon; they had contributed to both the 1973 Oil Crisis and the 1979 Energy Crisis.[33][34] The price of oil subsequently dropped, and the 1980s did not see the gasoline lines and fuel shortages that the 1970s had.[34] Reagan also attempted to make good on his 1980 campaign promise to repeal the "Windfall Profit Tax" that Carter and Congress enacted in 1980 on domestic oil production; he was able to do so in 1988, when Congress agreed that it had increased dependence on foreign oil.[35] The tax was not a tax on profits, but an excise tax on the difference between a statutory "base price" and the market price.[36] Reagen also stopped aggressive pushing of new auto efficiency standard by Carter administration, descended on alternative energy researches started by Carter administration.

Apparently his deregulation of the oil industry wasn't all bad...

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

People = Money

[donkeyjon.livejournal.com]

As it should be.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

...fail

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Soylent greenbacks are made of people! PEOPLE!!!

[terminator44.livejournal.com]

As much as governments do in any case.

[foreverbeach.livejournal.com]

Regulation: Because mendacious thieves who have never worked a real job in their lives but are good at campaigning know what's best for everyone.