Posted on 09/04/2011 1:43:07 PM PDT by Graewoulf
What are the top ten Federal regulations that, if aboloshied FOREVER would create the most work. Yep, I said work! What we need is WORK! Harken back with me to the days of yore when, in the 1930's, trainloads of men crisscrossed this poverty-ridden country, (why was crime so low, but that is another post to come).
Anyhow, these impoverished men did not look for "jobs," THEY LOOKED FOR WORK ! Time to push back from the table of consumption and start working to produce things to be consumed.
So, to decrease the damned Federal payroll and boost the number of non-government employees let us suggest to our spineless, Bipartisan Cave-In, career RINOS 10 Federal Regulations that should be permanently ABOLISHED on 10-1-2011.
The critera is simple: which abolished regulations will create the most work for legal Americans?
You can get rid of a lot more than ten by abolishing the EPA and the Education Department.
Even private business commonly uses credit, although there is no law that says a business needs to have any credit at all. Ronald Reagan’s controlled easing of credit helped business boom again during his tenure. That said, I think it might help if it were easier for small businesses to get credit but it was not so easy (or at least, not so cheap) for poorly qualified home buyers to get credit. A Republican administration would be likely to oversee this in a quasi honest fashion. A Democrat administration would use it as another perk for its friends.
How about we just abolish FedGov™.
Also sunset legislation should be passed that puts a time limit on existing regulations. The regulations would then have to be resubmitted on a schedule for reevaluating all regulations and submitted for Congress to either enact or not enact into law.
I'm sorry to inform you that our money is a debt-based instrument.
Almost none of it enters the money supply without having been created as debt. It is lent into existence.
It also led to the collapse of the banking industry in Texas and Ohio, followed by the permanent demise of the entire savings and loan industry.
This should read Top 10 Federal Regulations that Mush be Abolished to Create Real Work
"to be abolished" suggests that there is some plan by the federal government to abolish them. Of course there isn't.
And thus, bankers get a cut off the top plus compound interest on the expansion of the money supply. "Interest is the eighth wonder of the world" as Nathan Rothschild is famous for stating.
“make all future regulations be submitted to Congress to be enacted into law”
Under the Constitution, Congress has sole law-making authority, and has no authority to delegate it to executive branch departments.
Personally, I’d add the requirement that all first and second readings of every bill be actual readings of the language of the bill, before a quorum. If we have to live by it, they could at least be expected to listen to it.
And then I’d limit the session to July and August of every second year.
And finally, I’d outlaw air conditioning in federal buildings.
We do not need any more laws, that will be ignored, or regulations, which are in effect laws. Try ignoring OSHA regulations, or environmental regulations, and see if you are not treated as a law breaker.
A good start would be to reestablish the Constitution as the law of the land, most if not all of our real problems would be solved. Perhaps over time the regulatory mess bureaucrats have built for WE THE PEOPLE, could be rectified in some way.
I’m sure it would be an oversimplification to say, just eliminate the regulations under the present litigious climate, but if we cannot get the Constitution, with its fixed and few limits on government as THE LAW OF THE LAND we aren’t going anywhere but down.
Both of you have made similar points. So let us pursue the idea of debt and debt by credit for a little while.
With business the positive multiplier is increased production, increased sales, the synergy of The Invisible Hand, economy of scale, competition, innovation, and a tidy return on the debt or debt due to credit. This is a business that generates a profit.
The United States of America has had only one President that presided over our Nation when it had no debt. ( I think it was Van Buren? )
The USA is a debt-creating machine. The multiplier for the USA is Debt, which is the opposite of money. There are NO Federal programs that are not in debt. Even the money we print or mint immediately looses 25 cent on the dollar.
The USA Federal Government is the world’s largest “Business” and it operates on the debt it assigns to future generations of Americans.
And finally, I’d outlaw air conditioning in federal buildings.
Brilliant! Might also serve as a guaranteed term limit.
Might serve as a guarantee of working FOR the people instead of doing to them.
However, just to avoid a misread, Congress shall not meet
in any building that is not a Federal Building
Love it, July/August, in DEE CEE without air conditioning.
Well, you are partially correct. You see, well - - - .
I’ll just come out and say it:
It is not the temperature that is the problem in DC, it is the STUPIDITY!
#1. Abolish the Davis Bacon Act. It would reduce the cost of public funded buildings by 1/3. Small town America is being raped by Davis Bacon.
It is not the temperature that is the problem in DC, it is the STUPIDITY!
Just like those head over heels for the global warming or climate change scam.
They pay on $10 in deposits and earn on $9 in loans. It's just awful.
It is our Republic, not the libs welfare state.
Right now the Ivy-League punks that write the regulations are more powerful than the US Congress.
Since the regulators were not in the Constitution, the laws and regulations written by the regulators are in all probably unconstitutional.
So let us start with the regulators, and then on to the mandatory entitlement taxes.
Let us take our Republic back before the Keynesian Death Spiral makes that impossible.
I wholeheartedly agree that most if not all of our current problems would vanish if we actually lived by the Constitution.
Perhaps the biggest problem is that there is no enforcement mechanism, except the anger and outrage of We The People. The Several States have the power to force changes, but they’re too interested in keeping the gravy train of federal dollars flowing into their territories. (Although that might change when the money either runs out or the dollar becomes worthless.)
In a reasonable world, Obummer would have been impeached 12 times over by now. The Supreme Court would have been taken out and flogged over the years for the madness they’ve shown (Wickard v. Filburn, Kelo, et al). And the Congress needs a sweeping change of personnel over their favorite lazy game of not passing actual laws but creating new agencies which will then generate new laws ... oops, regulations.
But our world is no longer reasonable. We sit here dumbfounded as our supposed “representatives” act like our leaders and force-feed us things we openly and vocally DO NOT want, e.g. Obamacare, wide open borders, etc.
I think government would improve greatly if we hanged a few of the bastards in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Just to make a statement, you see!
Sorry about the rant, Graewoulf. To answer the question ...
Payroll withholding. Eliminate that and we would have a lot more pay at the end of the month. The feds insist that we trust them with our tax money, so it’s only fair that they should trust us to send in our tax payments on April 15. I promise I’ll send mine, right on time! Really ... I will!
Eliminate the Department of Labor. The unions have plenty of legal protection on the books. Why do we need a Cabinet position to look out for them?
Eliminate the Department of Energy. Has the DOE resulted in one additional barrel of oil in the pipeline? Didn’t think so.
Eliminate the Department of Education. Schools require local control. Nothing good comes from federal intervention.
Eliminate the Department of Transportation. What exactly do they transport? Oh wait ... they run Amtrak, right? Yeah ... gone.
Sunset the requirement that employers must match employees’ FICA and other federal contributions. Why would any employer in her right mind want to hire anyone, when the cost and regulatory burden is so overwhelming?
Well, those changes would be a good start, anyway. But there would still be much more left to be done.
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