NJ? Well, they're possible because of the gazillions of big box retailers on Rt 17. Take those evil entities away, and your rear end will be bleeding green money. I'll take my chances with corporations over govt any day. At least something will actually get done..... The old axciom, "We have to give power to liberals every now and then to be reminded how screwed up they are", has been proven correct again. If our school system wasn't controlled by the statists at NEA headquarters we wouldn't have to go thru this misery every twelve years. The essence of this argument- that regulation is unpopular, no matter how it is advocated, is interesting from a magazine purporting to be about reason as opposed to popularity. We now have seen insurance, mortgage and S&L industries collapse under deregulation, and we have seen regulatory regime that was instituted after the last banking collapse in the 1930s succeed in bringing about two generations of prosperity. (Abetted considerably by Big Government intervention in rural conservation and Big Government projects from rural electrification through the Interstate Highway system and the development of the Internet.) So where is the Reason in advocating a return to days when Depressions occurred frequently enough that they needed modifying adjectives? This quote came from the Czech Republic. Someone has it all figured out. It's sad that most of the people of the US don't. "The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man