Posted on 06/16/2017 8:13:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Seventeen years after the Year 2000 bug came and went, the federal government will finally stop preparing for it.
The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal agencies, including an obscure rule that requires them to continue providing updates on their preparedness for a bug that afflicted some computers at the turn of the century. As another example, the Pentagon will be freed from a requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is paid, a task that consumed some 1,200 man-hours every year.
Were looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters at the White House. He likened the move to the government cleaning out our closets.
Deregulation is a major ambition of President Donald Trumps agenda; as one example, he has signed more laws rolling back his predecessors regulations than the combined total of the three previous presidents since the process was established by the 1999 Congressional Review Act.
With tongue slightly in cheek, I've often proposed that all laws over 100 years old will sunset in five years unless re-enacted. Those over 50, 10 years; newly enacted laws will sunset in four years. That would keep the pols so damn busy they wouldn't be able to enact new ones.
Before that comes UNIX rollaround. 1970 plus 2^31 seconds - some time in 2038.
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