Awww, how I yearn for those glory days of smaller government.
A remarkable epoch of political indulgence that overwhelmingly favored wealthy corporations and business interests at the expense of consumers, labor rights, and social justice. A period of unparalleled poverty, hunger, Hoovervilles, and housing shortages.
An enchanted period of luxurious markets and grocers where the consumer could purchase rotten meat corrupted by animal feces, foodstuffs tainted by pesticides, poisons, and animal feces, and canned goods contaminated by bacteria and animal feces.
A magnificent era of immaculate captains of industry, who controlled morally upstanding corporate monopolies, saintly and trustworthy trusts, and who were responsible for such social benevolence as price fixing, price gouging, and other forms of consumer abuse.
A lofty and transcendent time when unprotected and powerless laborers were at risk of dismemberment by ominous industrial machinery, immolation by furious foundry furnaces, and poisoning by uncontrolled dispersal of dangerous chemical compounds.
A revolutionary age when the lack of government regulation rewarded mindless corporations for polluting the pristine public waterways of America, for belching suffocating clouds of noxious particulate matter into the atmosphere, and for dumping poisonous chemical agents and industrial waste into America’s underground aquifers.
An enlightened era of company stores, where underpaid and powerless workers had the unprecedented privilege of buying shoddy merchandise, low-quality commodities, and rancid food at exorbitant prices. An ingenious and philanthropic method to perpetuate the nonexistent practice of wage slavery.
An extraordinary time of unhinged, out-of-control, and unregulated greed by financial organizations and those immaculate and unfailingly honest captains of industry that led to a repetitious and wild roller coaster ride of boom-or-bust business cycles. An ingenious system of political laissez-faire capitalism that led to several major financial crises, including the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that virtually destroyed the world economy for several years.
Awww, The good old days of small government.
BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH THE TEA PARTY!!!