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redqueen

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4. I love your rant! And this part especially is coherent as hell!
Mon Jan 27, 2014, 01:39 PM
Jan 2014
we progressives have worked long and hard for regulations of those industries, but the moment we're talking about something a group of those progressive enjoys, we need to be hands off and refuse regulation, because otherwise they'll move the production to other countries, they claim. So I'm betting the same group of progressives are against anything such as boycotts of clothes made in sweat shops, or recalling food with dangerous additives imported to the US - since we have regulation of working conditions in the US, we cannot do anything when they move that production overseas either!


When people on a democratic board start spewing rightwing talking points opposing workplace safety regulations, well...

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