Conservatives LIKE Regulation

Oh, the conservative decry "regulation" all the time as though it were the instrument of Satan. But let's be more exact and cut through the double-talk of demagoguery. The architects of conservatism just don't like regulation that protects public health and environmental safety. What they DO like is regulation which loads unnecessary and arbitrary expenses and fees on small businesses, small farms, and small-scale industries, in order that these might be increasingly crippled with overhead costs. Conservatives simply do not really believe in free enterprise, though the mouths of their politicians make a show of flapping about it on the campaign trail. However, as soon as their hand-picked politicians get into office, they listen only to the big business lobbyists. As legislators, they pass as many regulations as possible to crush the entrepreneurs. The laws they pass send a clear signal: there must be no alternative competition to the large corporations, who are all in an alliance with each other against the art of capitalism being successfully practiced by the little guy. What I would like to tell these conservative legislators is this: you clearly cannot run a durable economy on bullsh**t. An economy must produce something real, and if it doesn't produce it on home soil, the country has thrown away the economic sovereignty of its people. Unfortunately, big business no longer contents itself with remunerative success. Big business is determined to quash the emergence of small, regional competition. Of course, agribusiness and its particularly adept lobby groups are especially notorious for using ploys with legislative bills that effectively sweep away our yeomen farmers. In general, what seems to have happened is that big business has redefined the meaning of success: rather than it being about the quality of the product they produce, and getting people to recognize that quality, they would rather be predators that destroy or devour all competition. Not what I would call the economy of a once proud democracy.