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Mike Lee photo depicts a nation of federal regulations
Washington Examiner ^ | JANUARY 13 | JOEL GEHRKE

Posted on 01/15/2014 5:53:07 AM PST by Texas Fossil

Congress passed a historically low number of laws in 2013, but the executive branch bureaucrats who write the nation's federal regulations remained as busy as ever, as Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, demonstrated with a single picture.

"Behold my display of the 2013 Federal Register," Lee wrote in a caption for a photo posted to his Facebook page on Friday.

"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."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: bureaucrat; federal; federalregister; hussein0homo2; mikelee; register; regulations
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A picture is at times worth a thousand words.

It is TIME to DownSize DC!

1 posted on 01/15/2014 5:53:07 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

This is how you bury a capitalist country. Government bureaucrats have to pass regulations to justify their paychecks, so the bigger government grows, the more parasites are sucking the life out of their host, the private sector. The private sector ends up dead, and the parasites scream in the streets that their source of blood has dried up.

Goose...golden eggs.


2 posted on 01/15/2014 5:58:02 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

Correct.


3 posted on 01/15/2014 6:01:20 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil
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4 posted on 01/15/2014 6:02:01 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: Texas Fossil

5 posted on 01/15/2014 6:06:41 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Good job Travis.


6 posted on 01/15/2014 6:09:50 AM PST by glock rocks (If you like your health plan, you're a racist !)
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To: Texas Fossil

Congress did this to themselves when they created government agencies and gave them the power to make rules and regulations with the weight of law.


7 posted on 01/15/2014 6:18:07 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The War on Drugs has been used as an excuse to steal your rights. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Travis McGee

Ah, for the days when it was only when Congress was in session that
no man’s life, liberty, or property were safe.


8 posted on 01/15/2014 6:18:24 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: txrefugee

Still think just voting will do the job? To reduce the size of Federal Government you’d need to layoff a lot of folks with union representation. How’s that gonna fly?


9 posted on 01/15/2014 6:19:21 AM PST by griswold3 (Post-Christian America is living on borrowed moral heritage)
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To: Travis McGee

- Cost to American citizens and businesses :

- $120B/year ( $120,000,000,000 )

-

…..thanks B. Hussein Ohomo II


10 posted on 01/15/2014 6:20:33 AM PST by devolve ("He's just 'too talented' to do what 'ordinary people' do." "Barry of Bungle" "Homo Electus")
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To: Travis McGee

The first ‘cost cutting’ regulation that needs to be passed is to eliminate any and all airconditiong from office buildings in DC and within 20m radius of congress. Next, no office thermostat may be set higher than 60F in the winter time. Only computer facilities should be a/c and no more than one desk per facility for anyone to actually sit down.

Time was, prior to air conditioning, when DC was essentially empty between May and September. That alone limited the mischief.


11 posted on 01/15/2014 6:21:36 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: glock rocks

Captions go a long way. Without captions, the photo is meaningless on its own without reading the article. With captions, it can be shared with one click on Facebook, etc.

Took me 2 minutes on MS “Paint,” which is on 90% of PCs.


12 posted on 01/15/2014 6:23:14 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Black Agnes

Instead, DC has become Babylon on the Potomac.


13 posted on 01/15/2014 6:24:01 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Texas Fossil

I have a question. It might sound srupid but I tried to look it up and could not find an answer...so here goes.
Does a president have the authority to FIRE government employees? I mean like ALL of them and start over?


14 posted on 01/15/2014 6:26:57 AM PST by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: MestaMachine

STUPID. Sorry.


15 posted on 01/15/2014 6:28:51 AM PST by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: Texas Fossil
All you need to know about government: Regulators Regulate - that's what they do. To reduce regulations you must reduce the number of regulators. Problem solved.
16 posted on 01/15/2014 6:32:13 AM PST by USMA '71 ((Re-elect no one!))
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To: griswold3

What happened to the department of Commerce?


17 posted on 01/15/2014 6:37:56 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Texas Fossil
Little wonder then, words spoken in testimony before congress last month: "You are fomenting an armed insurrection!" Eyebrows were raised, but not much else. Such sentiment was expressed many years ago by a gentleman named Patrick Henry. Then, as now, those words held little importance in moment, arching eyebrows, but not much else. For the moment. In the fullness of time, the words"You are fomenting an armed insurrection!" will be passed down through the generations as the alarm in the night that went unheeded. My question to you, Mr. Lee is what are you and your colleagues on Capitol Hill going to do about it?

"It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, "Peace! Peace!" -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" Patrick Henry - March 23, 1775
18 posted on 01/15/2014 6:42:45 AM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: mountainlion

Penny Pritzker


19 posted on 01/15/2014 6:52:08 AM PST by griswold3 (Post-Christian America is living on borrowed moral heritage)
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To: Texas Fossil

My brother in law who is with the State Dept told me many years ago that most of the laws in this country are written by mid level bureacrats.

The only way to get rid of these people is to do away with their job. That means shutting down agencies which even the GOP cannot bring themselves to think of. The only candidate for President in 2012 who could name agencies he would shut down was Newt.


20 posted on 01/15/2014 6:54:40 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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