Good stuff! - It's the stuff government is made of, you know.
Once again, I point this out to you as an example of how government does not and cannot solve real-life problems. Only individuals can. As more Americans turn their eyes to Washington for solutions to everyday problems, it is critically important to understand the way policy is made by the central government.
Here' how policy is made: Next year congress will create more than five-hundred new laws; the year after that, congress will create an additional six hundred new laws; the year after that, seven hundred new laws... and on and on it will go, has gone and presently exists.
Apparently we don't need next years laws this year but we will need those 500 new laws next year. And the year after next? Well, we don't need those six hundred laws this year. Nor will we need them next year, but we will need them the year after next. Same thing for the seven hundred new laws congress will create in 2005 -- we don't need them now but apparently we will need them in 2005.
Question: how many laws will be removed over the next three years? Will any laws be rescinded? Perhaps a dozen laws will be removed during the three year time span congress creates the expected 1800 new laws.
understand the way policy is made by the central government.
Obviously, though not intended by the founders, the job of every member of congress is to contribute/work towards creating more and more new laws.
In the United States, the federal government prosecutes small private landowners for making sensible improvements on their own land. They are jailed, fined, ruined – all because some bureaucrat knows better.
If not that, then when a land owner improves his land the government raises his property tax. Draining the land owner of some degree of value in the process.
EPA says biosolids should be spread on farmland with reckless abandon. You see, the government had a problem it created itself. Congress passed more laws restricting the way individuals could use their land. Congress made more laws restricting the way businesses could dispose of sludge. Congress passed more laws forbidding the dumping of sludge in the oceans. So, what was the EPA to do with the nasty byproduct of all this legislation?
Though not intended by the founders, the job of every member of congress is to contribute/work towards creating problems that need not exist. And thus empower the many legislative/bureaucratic alphabet agencies with more and more power and control over individuals and private property.
The next three years will have congress creating 1,800 new laws. That's 1,800 new problems that need not exist.
Note: The "1,800 new laws" number is speculative and probably quite conservative. During Clinton's eight years in the oval office 25,000 new laws and regulations were created.
The truth is that government doesn't know any more than you or I know about the potential harmful effects of sludge.
The truth is that government with all it's politicians and bureaucrats doesn't know any more than the market knows about the potential harmful effects of any object, substance or action. Government often knows considerably less.
Government is the real threat to the environment. It always has been. It always will be. How foolish for misguided environmentalists to turn to the mega-polluters for solutions.
Government is the real threat to the people's prosperity. It always has been. It always will be. How foolish for misguided patriots to turn to the mega-problem creators for solutions.
And thus empower the many legislative/bureaucratic alphabet agencies with more and more power and control over individuals and private property.Z, And, create the "need" for more "enforcers" and associated equipment, and MORE private sector taxpayer money to pay godgov's bills. Nice scam run by the best politicians money can buy. Peace and love, George.