It’s Boomtime For Regulators Under Obama, While Economy Flatlines

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 5/27/2016 | Staff

[IBD editorial writer]

Regulations: The economy might be tepid under President Obama, but there is one part that has been thriving. Since Obama took office, the federal regulatory economy has never been better, with solid growth in spending and employment.

[GodAndCountryFirst]

This is getting out of control.

I often think America needs its own Pinochet.

I don’t know if we have generals with the courage and patriotism to do what Pinochet did. But 10 or 15 years like that — a regime willing to absolutely purge the leftist, atheistic rot from our institutions and then step aside — could be our best hope to end this kind of madness.

[combat_boots]

Yesterday, I read that people employed with local, state and national government now exceed those people with Fortune 500 companies COMBINED.

[combat_boots]

Should be those people employed with/by

[mountainlion]

We used to have big idea rulers that got us to the moon and the greatest economic expansion in history. Now the small minded dictocrats’s biggest idea is putting perverts in the girls bathroom.

[GodAndCountryFirst]

Outrageous. About 99% of government jobs are unnecessary make-work positions. Government workers contribute ZERO to the economy. They are moochers. The most crime-ridden parts of Washington, DC are populated with government employees. They are worse than the welfare rats.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I know a guy in HR who was sent a file folder of new Masters Degree grads from a major university. Every one of those kids had majored in some sort of “green sustainability” studies. Utterly unqualified to be anything EXCEPT a regulator.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I often think America needs its own Pinochet.

Chile has economically outperformed the rest of Latin America over the past four decades. And has been infinitely more stable overall.

This largely due to the fact that Pinochet rounded-up all of their Leftists and dumped them into the sea. Just let THAT sink in for a moment.