If you hear this word mentioned in a positive light, odds are someone rich is talking.
Deregulation of various industries is a concept loudly heralded by Republicans and Conservatives in general as a means to "promote competition" and "stimulate the economy". These people can be trusted of course because, as we all know, their brilliant strategy of
cutting taxes for the people most likely to send labor off
American shores and setting the tax burden on the lower and middle classes is working
like a charm.
Anyone with half a
brain can quickly figure out that they're more or less looking for a friendlier way of saying they'd like to make it easier to act outside the law, let unsafe and under-tested products roll off assembly lines on the cheap, and bring back the days before the Clayton Antitrust Act; a glorious
time period in which the grand-daddies of the current crop of Republicans made their money and earned their
clout.
"Deregulating the __________ industry is
essential to promote competition and stimulate the economy."
-Every
Republican politician or businessman has uttered these
words at least one time in his career.