Senator Pardek is like a real Senator. They like to proclaim that such and such is a huckster (see post #7) or harming people or wrong and then they propose to solve the problem. The Senators, like other members of congress manufacture problems so they can solve them and thus justify their jobs and unearned paychecks. They like to proclaim, "I'll use the government to compassionately protect the little guy." In reality, they create problems that need not exist.
Politicians and bureaucrats create and implement roughly 3,000 new laws and regulations each year. That number increases on average from one year to the next. Each year they tell us that the new laws are "must-have laws" that people and society can't prosper without. They do that, so they imply, to keep people from running society headlong into destruction.
Yet how is it that citizens and the society they make up has managed to not only survive but increase prosperity when they didn't have this year's 3,000 new laws last year or for decades before? Likewise, how did citizens increase prosperity for decades prior to last year's 3,000 new must-have laws? And they do that despite a mountain of laws that they've already been saddled/burdened with. Thirty new laws a year is probably overkill. But 3,000 is insane.
During Clintons eight years in the White House alone, there were 25,000 new laws and regulations created. How many of those laws did you break? With that many laws piled on top of the ones that already existed virtually every citizen is a criminal.
However, if in a day it was physically possible to apprehended even one quarter of those lawbreakers society would come to a screeching halt. Yet with all these supposed criminals on the lose prosperity continues to increase.
Seems obvious that lobbyists and special interest groups seeking to buy access to government power in order to gain unfair competitive advantages would be non existent if politicians weren't putting government power up for sale in the first place. They sell the "little guys" snake oil (for example, a bogus/unhealthy dietary guide) while they sell access to government power to their big money donors/supporters.
Excuse me while I prepare my "Why Zon Is Like A Real (Paula) Zahn" essay.