George Rebane
Did you catch the latest out of the District of Comedy? As promised, and for what they were elected, the Congressional Repubs are doing their best to pull back Obamacare and the rest of the $1.5T economic effluent that has flowed out of Washington over the last two plus years. Every day we are discovering new regulatory landmines and impediments to getting Americans back on the job that has been the recent progressive work product. Removing as many of those as possible should be job one for promoting the creation of jobs across the land. That’s how government can help the fastest with the mostest.
Not so according to the gang that has failed Econ 101 more times than we can count. Today they are on the Sunday talk shows telling people that it’s the Dems who are in there attempting to create jobs while the Repubs are out in right field messing around with repeal/revision of nationalized healthcare. Led by their Organizer-in-Chief, these guys have budgeted another $1.5T of deficits for the coming year, with no clue that every dollar misdirected and inefficiently spent by the public sector is a dollar not available to the private sector for creating jobs and growing the economy. No matter the results, such is the consistent and unchanging theme song of the socialists.
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever, and insanity should be institutionalized in places other than the halls of government.
I truly believe the democrats are mentally ill.
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 30 January 2011 at 01:59 PM
Liberalism is a Mental Disorder:
http://www.amazon.com/Liberalism-Mental-Disorder-Savage-Solutions/dp/1595550062
Posted by: Mikey McD | 31 January 2011 at 08:54 AM
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result each time. When will the Democrats learn that government can only create government jobs, they cannot create jobs in the public sector. On the other hand they can do a lot to impede the development of private sector jobs. When will the learn? Oh, now we are back to the insanity issue again. No nation has regulated or taxed itself into prosperity.
Posted by: Russ Steele | 31 January 2011 at 09:30 AM
Ah Russ that would be never, sorry to break that to you, but thats why they are Democrat's - otherwise they would be Republicans
Posted by: Dixon Cruickshank | 31 January 2011 at 09:48 AM
I think the politicians have so intertwined regulations into so many parts of our lives and businesses that it may be impossible to fix it without throwing most of it out and strating over. Everyone wants to somehow fix the Gordian Knot. I say chop the darn thing up and make a new, loose version of the knot.
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 31 January 2011 at 11:51 AM
Point well made Todd. The complexity of laws/regulations and their intertwining is all part of the national full employment policy for lawyers. None of them really know what's in there and how they link. But, as we know, they will argue that every case is different, and they will thoroughly research how you are affected. It's called billable hours, and these are cooked right in when the legislation is drafted.
Yes, taking existing Rube Goldberg laws/regs by category, and redrafting from scratch with an eye toward simplification, clarity, and coherence would be the thing to do. And it would require a national effort executed bit by piece. An intriguing way to do it would be in the law schools as student projects. But until we too gather in the streets, there is no impetus for any of this.
Posted by: George Rebane | 31 January 2011 at 12:46 PM
But until we too gather in the streets, there is no impetus for any of this.
I have a couple old tires out back
Posted by: Dixon Cruickshank | 31 January 2011 at 05:38 PM
Do you know how to light one of them? I don't have a clue.
Posted by: George Rebane | 31 January 2011 at 06:01 PM
Ask Winnie Mandela.
Posted by: D. King | 31 January 2011 at 10:42 PM