The small pile on top of the shelf is the laws Congress passed. All that other paperwork inside the shelf? The regulations generated by those laws. Who has the time for this?
Senator Mike Lee says in a Facebook posting:
Behold my display of the 2013 Federal Register. It contains over 80,000 pages of new rules, regulations, and notices all written and passed by unelected bureaucrats. The small stack of papers on top of the display are the laws passed by elected members of Congress and signed into law by the president.
Well Senator, I’m an aerospace engineer. I get paid to solve the hard problems. So I can recommend a first step in the solution.
A second step would be to retire most (all?) of the bureaucrats and don’t hire any new ones.
A third step:
That probably should be the last task of the regulators before we retire them.
Why retire them and not fire them? Civil service regulations. (Those will probably be the last to go. It is unwise to be too vindictive. It increases resistance.) In any case it is probably much cheaper to have them on government rolls doing nothing than having them on government rolls writing more regulations.
I’m sure there are other things, Senator. I just wanted to stimulate your thinking.
Update: 17 April 2016 1348z
Bill Quick has linked to this post. You might want to have a look at his home page for other goodies.
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One response to “Laws and Regulations”
What do you do with all this stuff? Can’t burn it, too much carbon. Has to be recycled somehow. Let’s bequeath it all to the UN, they love pointless bureaucracy. This will give those third world bucket heads something to pretend they’re doing.