I like jafo, but I don't think he understands that what Trump might loose in the Dead Head Fed vote will be more than compensated by millions of Americans who a cheering him on that have dealt with the unbearable bureacracy of IRS, EPA, FDA, OSHA, etc. etc. etc. etc,
Governmental agencies have made millions of lives pure hell. Time to gut this son of a bitch.
Where I especially agree, is that many of these agencies have pretty much fulfilled their original missions. Rivers no longer catch on fire, you can see across NYC, or another major city (no smog), and large numbers of sites have been identified, along with the hazards and materials in them, and measures taken to prevent new ones from being created.
At this point, we have agencies desperate to increase their funding and size (size being the all-important determinant of how important an agency is, and of funding they ask for), sitting around, coming up with new things to regulate and new ways to regulate them.
How clean is clean?
When you declare CO2 a "pollutant" you have passed the mark, but regardless of any scientific reasoning, it opens an entire new realm to regulate and make relevance for your agency, just to give one example.
When was the last time an agency was closed down because their job was done?
That hasn't happened, because they have been given the power by Congress to promulgate regulations until they are making rules about cosmic rays (one thing they haven't gotten around to, yet).
That needs to be reined in. Just the differing regulations for industry, not imposed at the same time, and often in a series of modifications, have damaged our industry, as it tried to make a profit and keep up with moving targets that were sometimes changed before the modifications to meet the last standard were completed.
It costs money to keep up with an ever changing set of standards, a lot of money, because the regulations change like tax laws. Enough is enough. If the mission (as originally conceived) has been met, then all that remains is enforcement of regulations that can remain the same, only altered to take into account new findings as to what truly presents a problem, and to include new technology.
And that requires fewer people making fewer new rules, not more of both.
