Mine Safety and Wall Street Reform: Both Case Studies in the Need of More Big Government

One of the most unfortunate things about the major political 'debate' going on in America these days is the sheer vapidness of it.

You are either a Socialist/Marxist/Communist in favor of the state controlling your every decision, or you are a free market capitalist who believes in the sheer beauty and infallibility of the free market.

Indeed the above could be succinctly titled "Politics for Idiots" or "How To Make Life Easy:  Just Turn Off Your Brain!"

For the Tea Party / Wingnut 'Anti-Socialist!' crowd recent unfortunate developments provide us with teachable moments that can hopefully penetrate their thick skulls at least somewhat with some common sense:

With the coal mine catastrophe in West Virginia that saw 30 people tragically lose their lives, we had a lunatic/wingnut right wing ignoramus (see video here) serving as CEO who flouted flimsy, chronically underfunded government mine safety regulations that in turn created the conditions for the tragedy to occur.

Hey Wingnut, what's the solution there?  Less government?  More free markets?  How about we rely on Mr. Blankenship's good sense and decency??

And how about with Wall Street reform to prevent more trillion dollar bank bailouts that leave the taxpayer footing the bill when these greedy bastards lose everyone's money by gambling at the craps table??  Or how about Bernie Madoff?  What's the answer to prevent future clusterfucks of this magnitude from happening again?

Less SEC?  Less government oversight?  How about we pay our top SEC officials less?

Great Idea!

Give me a break and turn your brains on.