...a list for everyone complaining about health care and the fact that the government controls our entire life.
Our food.
Have you ever read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle? If not, go read it. Without regulation of food packaging and distribution, we might have rats and body parts and dirt in our meat. Think of that next time you bite into a juicy sausage.
Medicine.
This reminds me of the movie/musical Sweeney Todd when a man is claiming to sell a "miracle elixir" to grow hair back. I think it was actually made of pee. Thanks again to government regulation, we don't have phony doctors selling us miracle potions on the street corners...well, for the most part. I still have my doubts about Nutrasystem.
Trust busting.
Hearkening again back to the 1900s, where progressives pushed for government control of big businesses in monopolies. I think it was called "trust busting."
Halliburton anyone?
Toxins in our water and in kids' toys.
Enough said. Thanks to John Stewart for making this point in a poignant and hilarious way.
Childrens' education and, essentially, the future of this country.
No Child Left Behind Act ring a bell?
Pollution.
Call it environmentalism, conservationism, communism...whatever its name, saving the earth has actually been important since the last century's progressives took hold of it. I kind of agree.
Your civil rights.
Sure, if you're a white straight middle-class male, you may not care. But it was governmental laws that made it possible for women and blacks to be treated less like dirt and more like people. Hopefully we'll get there soon with gay rights.
Drugs.
Wait, cocaine is illegal?
Does Mexico know?
Child Labor.
...though sometimes I think the fat little punks in this nation need it.
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