Obama Regulatory Czar Backs Off Call for Gov't to Attach Lower Value to Older People

CNS News ^ | 6/3/11 | Fred Lucas

[Nachum]

(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama’s regulatory czar retreated from a 2003 academic report he wrote advocating that government assign a higher monetary value to the lives of young people than to senior citizens during testimony to Congress on Friday.

Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Cass Sunstein testified in front of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations about the Obama administration’s plans for reviewing and reducing federal regulations.

“I’m a lot older now than the author with my name was, and I’m not sure what I think about what that young man wrote,” Sunstein, 56, told the House panel. “Things written as an academic are not a legitimate part of what we do as a government official. So I am not focusing on sentences that a young Cass Sunstein wrote years ago. So the answer is no.”

Sunstein wrote the paper when he was a professor at the University of Chicago. It was titled “Lives, Life-Years, and Willingness to Pay.”

[Secret Agent Man]

Older folks are better educated than today’s younger folks, and have a lot more experiential knowledge to draw on when making decisions.

FUBO.

That needs to be a 2012 anti-obama sticker. Put that on top of Obama stickers.

[o-n-money]

“I’m a lot older now than the author with my name was, and I’m not sure what I think about what that young man wrote,” Sunstein, 56,

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I was taght that speaking about yourself in the third person was a sure sign of mental illness.

[little jeremiah]

But younger people make better Soylent Green. What to do, what to do.

[PA Engineer]

“I’m a lot older now than the author with my name was, and I’m not sure what I think about what that young man wrote,”

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! I can tell you what to think if you haven't come to the conclusion that all life is sacred. Once a young fascist and now an older fascist. Still a Nazi.

[PA Engineer]

Cass Sunstein, the “Zyklon B” Czar.

The obama administration will grant a FDA waiver for it too.

[famousdayandyear]

and they lie ALL the time; what’s happened to the Congress?
Are they dead? or just well paid

[penelopesire]

Video link here:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PolicyAs

The man is a menace and mental midget.

[GailA]

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Thomas Jefferson

Soylent Green by cartoonistx

[proudofthesouth]

"Where the hell are the GOP on this evil lot in power !"

Well considering how gutless the GOP has become I think they are working behind the scenes with the DemonRats.