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This is not particularly surprising.

In living memory, say as recently as the 1960's, all a man with a high school education needed to do to build a house was to buy a lot and purchase the necessary materials. He could work on it himself or hire out any part to any labor he chose.

Today there is a very real possibility any number of bureaucrats will find and ENFORCE any number of truly arcane and nonsensical rules in regard to the design, location,and materials of his house, critique his hiring practices and onsite construction techniques as well as question his paperwork and legal standing to engage in the practice of housebuilding.

Try something even more sophisticated and the problems multiply.

One of the titans of gun design (I'm not sure which) is said to have started his career at the age of about 15 in the mid 19th Century by purchasing the metal and machinery necessary to build his first rifle. No BATF oversight, no underage requirement, no Columbine syndrome. Just a skilled and visionary young man operating in an environment most people today would consider to be anarchy.

Somehow it all worked then and if we, the people, would just get some gumption it would work again.

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall:

Mr. Bush, If you truly love the principles of Liberty and the Constitution, TEAR DOWN THIS BUREAUCRACY!

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Mr. Bush, If you truly love the principles of Liberty and the Constitution, TEAR DOWN THIS BUREAUCRACY!

Uhh, I hate to tell you this but it isn't Mr. Bush that's the problem. It's the voters and non-voters who ultimately determine who gets elected to city, county state and federal elected offices. Perhaps you recall that our Constitution calls for a separation of powers across separate branches of government, which makes it, say, impossible for the President to tear down a bureaucracy all by himself. To your point, however, he could display greater leadership in this area. That he doesn't is, again, the fault of the voting populace.