No irony here...
As we all know, Rick Perry is fond of boasting that Texas' lack of regulations is
great for business.
Even though it may not be that great for Texas residents:
“The Wild West approach to protecting public health and safety is what you get when you give companies too much economic freedom and not enough responsibility and accountability,” said Thomas O. McGarity, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and an expert on regulation.
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This antiregulatory zeal is an outgrowth of a broader Texas ideology: that government should get out of people’s lives, a deeply held belief throughout the state that touches many aspects of life here, including its gun culture, its Republican-dominated Legislature and its cowboy past and present.
Texas is one of only four states with legislatures that meet as infrequently as possible, once every two years, as required by the state’s 137-year-old Constitution. From the freewheeling days of independent oilmen known as wildcatters to the 2012 presidential race, in which President Obama lost Texas by nearly 1.3 million votes, the state’s pro-business, limited-government mantra has been a vital part of its identity.
However, even though less regulations can and have led to
an explosion and deaths, as noted below...(emphasis mine)
(CNN) -- The 2013 fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and wounded another 226 in West, Texas, "should never have occurred," the chairman of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said Tuesday.
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The board's investigation, released a few days after the first anniversary of the explosion, indicates the incident was "preventable," Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso said. The statement from his agency, which was given Tuesday to reporters, blamed the company that owned the fertilizer plant, government regulators and other authorities for the incident.
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A lack of fire codes was repeatedly cited in the report, with investigators noting Texas didn't have a fire code and small counties are prohibited from having them. But, the chairman said, local fire departments need fire codes to "hold industrial operators accountable for safe storage and handling of chemicals."
...the stalwart misogynists of the Texas GOP fear non-exploding lady parts MUCH MORE. The GOP hypocrites of the Texas legislature, led by the truly myopic but smart-glasses-wearing Rick Perry, have instituted extremely harsh
REGULATIONS for abortion clinics.
Well, well, well. So let's see...to recap, it is absolutely A-ok to NOT regulate dangerous buildings like FERTILIZER PLANTS, which contain explosive chemicals. Because FREEDUMB and BIDNESS. But the delicate flowers of Texas womanhood are not allowed to obtain personal and private medical care from doctors who do not have medically unnecessary hospital admitting privileges, in buildings that have NEVER exploded but need to qualify as ambulatory service providers...even though abortions, particularly the early ones, are a simple procedure.
Where the fuck are all the regulation-hating people NOW? Gee, it's okay if 15 people DIE in an explosion that should NEVER have happened. But when women want to obtain legal medical care, they rush through legislation to REGULATE those businesses?
What a bunch of fuckers. And they can't even admit it.
Chuck Todd actually called out RNC Chairman Reince Preibus on the hypocrisy of Republicans being against regulations until it comes to the topic of regulating businesses that perform abortions. Then Chuck went in for the I’m not a shill kill. “There was a Supreme Court — a court upheld a new law in Texas. One of the things about the Republican Party is you don’t like a lot regulation on businesses, except if the business is a abortion clinic. Eighty percent of these abortion clinics in Texas are gonna be basically out of business because at this new law. Too much regulation, is that fair? Why regulate on the abortion issue now… Why not wait until you win a Supreme Court where you outlaw abortion all together? Why restrict a business now?”
Priebus couldn’t answer that question, so he dodged, “You obviously have the same to talk to someone in Texas (wait, aren’t these Republicans in Texas? Why can’t the party chairman explain what they are doing?) but the fact of the matter is that we believe that any woman that’s facing an unplanned pregnancy deserves compassion, respect, counselling, whatever it is that we can offer –”
What utter bullshit. I am SO rooting for Wendy Davis and Battleground Texas.
THIS.
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