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This country doesn’t need more socialism. It needs administrators and public servants willing to enforce the laws already promulgated throughout the glorious history of mankind’s most shining example of self-governance.

Enron may or may not have been a preventable debacle, but surely BushCo’s evisceration of the government’s investigative and enforcement functions (at least with respect to corporate America — there’s been no abatement in the trend to build more prisons and incarcerate more criminals under Republican hegemony), together with out-and-out appropriation of the same duplicitous, fantastical accounting and organizational chicanery that ultimately felled Enron (the Free Market is the best! ), surely the present administration has the most overtly pro-business and anti-popular policies of any since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

The House of Representatives is far less interested in the needs of the people, or in keeping cheap labor out of America, than it is in punishing those who actually provide, at the most visceral level, the opportunity for which the whole world yearns to come here.