Posted on 03/26/2006 7:19:57 AM PST by rellimpank
A fan of ever-expanding government wrote in this month, complaining about an aside in a recent Review-Journal editorial on the 70th anniversary of the Federal Register -- an editorial lamenting the fact that it took "only" 2,620 pages to itemize all the new federal regulations promulgated in the year 1936, but that by 2004 the Federal Register was publishing a an impenetrable 75,600 pages of new rules and regulations annually.
The remark in question?
"On March 14, 1936, the first edition of the Federal Register counted a whopping 16 pages," the Review-Journal editorialized on March 15, "featuring rules for the new Social Security system and trade practices for buttons on clothes. (Surely authorization for federal meddling in the button business resides in the Constitution somewhere, if only we look hard enough.)"
It was that final, parenthetical touch of sarcasm that was apparently the last straw for our letter writer.
(Excerpt) Read more at reviewjournal.com ...
I'm still trying to find that notation in the Constitution that says: Unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats may write law.
Must be in that penumbra orbitting Pluto or in one of those foreign law things like the communist constitution.
The elected congress should pack its bags and go home, then we can enjoy a true totalitarian state - rule by unelected dictators.
Nice, I hadn't read Vin in a while, thanks for the post.
--on a fantasy trip, if there was no air conditioning, Washington, D.C., would be uninhabitable in May-Sept like it used to be and they'd go home then too--
ping
Shut up, be happy. The enemy of progress is questions. I think that was how the song went.
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