At Risk of Sounding Like a Crazy Liberal (which, come on, I am)

First, a couple of complaints. Just general complaints:
-Okay, so the Consumer Product Safety Commission has decided to allow manufacturers to determine how much cadmium can be in children's toys, and is calling this "regulating." That's not regulating. That's capitalism at its worst.
-Also, why won't Congress pass a bill offering benefits to 9/11 first-responders? They're also stalling on the Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal and on a bill to legalize children of illegal immigrants. I mean, I know why they won't -- the Republicans do not want to give the Left anything until they get what they want, which is immature and totally like American government. They said they wouldn't give him anything unless they got their Bush tax cuts continued, and the Senate voted to extend those for another two years. The cuts benefit people who have an annual income of $200,000 post-taxes; this is a very, very small portion of the population. The cut is, like, three-percent. Seriously. Suck it up rich people. I don't want the trickle-down argument, either; This is why Congress is not my favorite branch of government.
     Speaking of regulation: I watched Food, Inc. for the first time last week, and felt like an idiot for not knowing that many members of the FDA have stock in the meat and corn industries. That's insanity. Regulation keeps people safe, keeps food sanitary and businesses from monopoly, protects small farms and small businesses, keeps lead out of children's toys and chemical toxins out of cat food. But there's this myth spread around people who are, for the most part, conservatives who get all their news from each other and the TV, that regulation is bad and undemocratic and socialist and fascist. Well, this is a republic, not a democracy, if that counts, and socialism and fascism are opposing political theories. Government regulation is a good thing. I just find it very annoying that the ex-business people who were recently running for office were supposedly so "pro-jobs" when businesses, to keep down costs and heighten profits, have increasingly (this is no Horatio Alger world -- unless you're born rich, you probably will never be). Whatever. Liberal idealists don't make me feel any warmer or fuzzier inside, either -- putting support in government to, like, reveal its flaws to you, instead of putting your support in WikiLeaks, which will gladly reveal everything to you, is just way to idealistic for me, and fairly naive.
Those are just my thoughts for the day, anyways.