Guest Post by Anthony Sanders
We could write a song about soon-to-be-former President Barack Obama and he penchant to burden the economy with endless regulations. We would call it “Barack The Regulator” (not to be confused with “John The Revelator.”) But the melody would be the same.
President Obama’s Federal Register added 572 pages on Thursday (Nov. 17) alone!
Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, Consumer Financial “Protection” Agency, EPA, etc? Land of the free is now the land of the over-regulated.
Check it out. Obama holds the record for the four largest increases regulatory pages, George W. Bush is in 5th place, then Obama again in places 6-8, Bush again in places in places 9-10, then finally Obama again in 11th place.
A 2014 report by the National Association of Manufacturers found that regulatory costs on all firms exceed $2 trillion annually and disproportionally affect small businesses.
And you were wondering why startups and firm creation in the USA are so low? Thank Barack The Regulator!
Drain the Swamp.
He’s not through yet, how much more damage can still be done in the next two months?
A lot.
Do not walk, do not talk, do not smoke pot, do not, do not, do not.
A few years ago I wanted to start a small business. Nothing large, but I had a new angle on an old idea, and some knowledge from my current work experience that isn’t available to most.
I had enough funding, workspace, equipment, storage, etc. I mean, I work in manufacturing. This would have been my first solo venture, but I’m not just some guy off the street.
The fucking regulations man. Ho Lee Fook. I don’t understand how any reasonable or sane person can be expected to run a business under this much pressure from our Federal Bureaucracy.
Trust me I am no Hillary fan, but if you think “The good times are a coming”, think again. Look at Bush’s regulations. Carlin was right, they are all part of the same club. Oh, and we still have a massive debt problem with The Donald talking “Infrastructure” and cutting taxes. That’ll help…sarcasm off.
*Much of Trumps talk is just so much quack and
speculation until he is actually sworn in.
* The top heavy grifters, and their massive army of worker
bees are writing the regulation…they have to “do” something,
or why should they exist? They generate revenue and they
pester and even torture normal people toward those ends.
Naturally, O signs the things.
*America, USA, if you prefer, will have to join the other countries,
cooperating and compromising, or we will become a tapeworm to
ourselves.
*There are many ways humans can actualize. Feeding off other people’s
work (because they are too stoopid to function) isn’t one of them.
Buying status symbols to signal wealth (I am smarter than you are)
isn’t really much better. The TV promotes all this crap. Especially sick
care, which we are helped to desire, “because it is a right” to get free
sick care. Everything on TV is a brain washing scam…one way or the other.
*Americans have got to get back to basics and gov needs to cut the
bureaucracies by 80%. Oh oh…more unemployed people. Actually,
there is an opportunity for many to be self-employed. We are going
to need millions of “farmer’s markets.” Industrial food will be sent to
China.
“*Americans have got to get back to basics…”
Yes indeed Suzanna. And some people are going to have to get their hands dirty.
“Prosperity depends entirely upon a minority being allowed to function. We do not mean a class, but a certain type of mind. It exists in various degrees and forms-business men and farmers and foremen and housewives, the people who always somehow get things done, get some practicable result from whatever material is at hand and whatever other people they must work with. They are self-starters. And they are seldom conspicuous.
The self-starters are never college professors nor politicians. Neither do we mean inventors, intellectuals, artists or writers-the creative artist is naturally anti-social. The self-starters, of course, use what more original minds discover, and their particular function is to hold everything together. One can’t always see how they do it…
In an effort to regulate everything those people may be easily eliminated. They have been very nearly exterminated in Russia. Bureaucracy smothers them. And the set-up goes with them.”