Posted on 06/21/2018 3:35:02 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Office of Management & Budget Director Mick Mulvaney gave an intricate and often eccentric explanation of redundancy and overlap in federal bureaucracy in a presentation that stunned the president and the press.
"I call this the 'drain the swamp' cabinet meeting," Mulvaney said, adding that it has been about 100 years since the federal government was reorganized at this scale.
He criticized the "Byzantine nature" by which the government regulates, creating headaches for business owners, employees and taxpayers.
"If you have a cheese pizza, it's governed by the Food & Drug Administration. If you put a pepperoni on it, it's governed by the [Department of Agriculture]," he said.
"If you have a [live] chicken, it's governed by the USDA. If that chicken lays an egg, it's governed by the FDA, but if you break the egg and make an omelette, that's again governed by the USDA."
He said that a hot dog is regulated simultaneously by two government agencies and said that one of the most intricate and "bizarre" cases of regulations involves saltwater fish.
Mulvaney said that a salmon in the ocean is governed by the Department of Commerce, but that when the salmon is swimming upstream into freshwater where it breeds, it is governed by Ryan Zinke and the Department of the Interior.
On its way to the breeding grounds, it encounters a fish ladder -- a device used to help fish navigate waterfalls and other impediments -- that is governed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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I say get rid of it all.
Shutter the bureaucracies, dump the regulations and let men govern themselves. How in the world did Americans survive before government bureaucrats amassed all these powers to themselves.
Government exists to make the bureaucracy bigger. It takes a businessman like Mr. Trump to drain the swamp. God bless him
Pizza...’: Mulvaney Amazes Trump With Explanation of ‘Ridiculous’ Gov’t Bureaucracy
Video at site
I think about cars.
Energy wants higher mileage.
EPA wants better emissions.
Consumer Affairs and NHTSA wants heavier, safer cars.
Agriculture wants ethanol.
Al of these things are at cross purposes, and all threaten to both increase the cost and to make it more difficult to extend the life or make improvements on your own car.
LOL!! He is one smart cookie!
We can vouch for Mr. Mulvaney’s story. It isn’t BS, or hyperbole at all.
Back in the early 1980’s one of our customers was trying to get his pizza to market. It was non traditional in that it wasn’t comprised of normal tomato sauce as its base. It took years, and several departments of Federal government to finally agree pizza didn’t have to be made with tomato sauce. More to the story, but I am not writing a novel here, so I made it a short story.
mentioning “cheese pizza” in the same topic of draining the swamp?
hmmm....
Good job, Mulvaney! I hope more like him continue to step forth. Thanks to God, the one in charge is allowing and encouraging truth to prevail.
Here is the plan (about 130 pages, graphics heavy):
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Government-Reform-and-Reorg-Plan.pdf
Absolutely. Most of these agencies are unconstitutional to begin with. Reorganizing them is just re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
‘He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.” Declaration of independence
I haven’t heard about this plan at all. It seems to totally overturn the bureaucracy in government. I really want to see the details, what a way to combat the deep state. Merge their fiefdoms with other fiefdoms and appoint new leadership. Wow!
Suspend all regulations for two years. Require petitioners to plead before an administrative judge as to why a specific regulation should be reinstated. Any regulation that is not pled or upheld expires permanently after two years. Finally; and perhaps most importantly, get large bags in which to put all the money thus saved.
That one saying made me a conservative back in the 80’s.
No. We just need an agency to regulate the regulators.
“let men govern themselves”
Men governing themselves is what brought us to this point.
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