The takeaway -—
Our vaunted liberty is now constrained by thousands of petty restrictions that touch almost anything we want to do, individualism is routinely ignored in favor of group rights, and we have acquired an arrogant upper class. Operationally as well as ideologically, the American creed is shattered.
So true! First industry targeted, then individuals. Standards were established, then tightened, then tightened again...and the invasion of individual privacy and property rights continues to get worse. Entire industries have been or are being bankrupted and others have moved their manufacturing offshore.
So which agency of all the overweening Federal Agencies is the absolute worst?