Government/Business

Health Care.  Let me see if I understand the argument on health care.  The federal government can't require the buying of insurance, it is said.  But the federal government required me and million others to join the army in the 1960's, costing 58,000 American citizens to die and hundreds of thousands of others to live the rest of their lives with disabilities-some very severe.  The state governments, namely North Carolina, required the forced sterilization of "troubled" children in the 1970's and then take no opportunity to amend the action.
It would seem the government on either level can do just about what it-or those in power-want it to do.  The argument that the government can't do something sure didn't hamper it in the two cases above.

Business activity.  Some say they want unregulated business activity so that companies can do just about what they want.  They will act responsibly, we are told.  Tell that to the residents of Garfield, NJ who are living with toxic and carcinogenic liquids that were "dumped" or "leaked" into the ground and water ways in their neighborhood by a company that electroplate.  The Record on 6/19/12 and for some days thereafter has been running such a story.  "The companies (are) to pay $ 20 million for work in the Passaic" reads the headline.  However, that will start a clean up of 13 % of the 120,000 cubic yards of "polluted mud" in the river.  And it seems that the EPA is happy with this solution.  The people living in the residential area effected are told not to use their basements, but the elementary school in the area is "safe".  They can't sell their homes and they are afraid to let their children play inside or outside the house.