Posted on 10/10/2011 5:39:31 PM PDT by tobyhill
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) tells MSNBC regulations create jobs because a business will have to hire people to help them comply with the new requirement.
"I think the answer is no," Ellison said when asked if he believes regulations kill jobs. "And here is why: When we talked about increasing fuel efficiency standards, the industry responded, and they need engineers and designers and manufacturers, and they need actually more people to help respond to the new requirement."
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I always liked the “dumber than bag of hammers” expression myself.
I’m rather partial to “dumber than a bag of chicken beaks” myself.
Yeah and Pelosi says unemployment stimulates the economy.
No, he’s right! the more regs, the more people the gov has to hire to enforce them and police the masses. Its been part of their plan all along, to create gov jobs for the unemployable... gees, haven’t you been through airport screening? Toadies looking through your personal belongings with a sense of power they’ve never known before? Telling you where to stand, touching you with an air of invincibility?
I like the term “dumber than wet paint”.
Yeah and Pelosi says unemployment stimulates the economy.
I spent a decade in the private sector as one of those compliance people getting government approvals to build retirement housing projects. While Rep. Ellison is correct that my skill in cutting red tape gave me employment, nothing I did directly made money for the company. My job was simply an expense and did not contribute directly to the profit of the company. If as Rep. Ellison alleges that an onerous regulatory climate would necessitate companies hiring dozens of red tape cutters just to shuffle the paper work, little or nothing would get built and few if any goods would be manufactured or sold. The company thus wouldn’t have the money to pay the army of red tape cutters or anyone else.
Listened to Ann Barnhardt, know why the guy is so slow.
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