Posted on 09/04/2011 6:12:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Though President Obama is nowhere to be seen on ground-level job-creation efforts apart from the golf course, he did issue an early 2011 executive order to streamline the federal regulatory process by a fraction of a percent in advance of his still-unannounced jobs agenda.
The president will present that jobs agenda to a joint congressional session, but meanwhile, his policies - such as tolerating the National Labor Relations Board’s dictating where a firm can build a plant - actively rip jobs away.
Sadly, the primary job-planning happening now in the private sector is planning to cancel job creation and to de-employ.
Mr. Obama’s slate of yet more regulations is beyond merely alarming in this tense environment. The FederalRegister already stands at more than 54,000 pages so far this year.
Among new incursions are the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Maximum Achievable Control Technology pollutant standards for fossil-fuel utilities, for cement plants and boilers like the ones factories and hospitals use. Other EPA standards await for ozone, for dust kicked up by farming and for power-plant coal ash.
Far from a jobs agenda, Mr. Obama advances an explicit anti-jobs program, one totaling hundreds of billions of dollars in costs and hundreds of thousands in jobs lost and jobs that can never appear. On top of an orgy of rule-making, our government, as deliberate public policy, prohibits access to safe and efficient extraction of fossil fuels on land and offshore.
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Still, Republicans don't want to address the root of this problem. Cantor proposes to waste months fighting the "Top 10 Job-Destroying Regulations." That is just nibbling at the edges. The problem is, 
created a government, limited by the Constitution, and said, “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”
If the Republican party wants “constitutional, limited government,” they would propose this:
Of course, the ruling class doesn't want to limit the federal government at all. Ruling class Republicans want to score enough political points to take control of the beast they helped to create. It's not about freedom, it's about power for the Ruling Class.
Regulations are not Laws Act
No regulation proposed by the Executive Branch or any agency thereof shall have the force of law until it is passed by a majority of both houses of Congress and signed into law by the President.
All regulations currently documented in the "Code of Federal Regulations" will sunset 5 years after the passage of this act, unless those regulations are presented to Congress and passed by a majority in both houses of the Congress and signed into law by the President.
And why wouldn't they like this situation? The dictator agencies relieve them of their responsibilities.
When they go home to face angry constituents, they can say "Gosh, I tried to stop it, but it's out of my hands. It's that gosh-darned EPA again."
“All regulations currently documented in the “Code of Federal Regulations” will sunset 5 years”
I wonder if that’s ever really happened???
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Unfortunately, the first part of your proposed Act is exactly how they claim it is working today. Congress passes a law (eg, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act) and the regulations flow from the acts. What must be stopped somehow is the overly broad interpretation of the act by the regulators.
The only solution is to completely kill off many of the regulatory agencies and slash the remaining agencies’ budget by 90%. With far fewer people to work their nation-destroying mischief on us, we could re-right the ship. Start with huge chunks of EPA and both DOEs.
No, there's a key difference. The first part of my act says that any regulation proposed by a regulatory agency must first be passed through the Congress before it has the "force of law."
ProtectOurFreedom wrote:
Unfortunately, the first part of your proposed Act is exactly how they claim it is working today.
Today, the EPA writes a regulation which they say flows from the Clean Air Act, and that regulation requires ozone levels of 60 ppb, and when that regulation is completed and published, it goes into effect as "the law."
Under my proposal, the EPA would have to bring that regulation to Congress first, and Congress would have to approve the proposal in both houses, and the president would have to sign off before the proposed regulation becomes “the law.”
It's that vote in the Congress that doesn't happen today. Today we have executive agencies legislating in their regulations, making new laws as they go along, with no accountability to .
Under my proposal, only Congress makes “the law.” If some bureaucrats at the Employment Prevention Agency want to have a law requiring ozone levels be seat at 60ppb, they bring that regulation to the Congress and Congress has to vote on it before it goes into effect.
...BHO is a whore!!!
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