[The Truth Will Make You Free]

Perhaps the worst over-regulation is that HCQ isn’t OTC like it is in many other countries. Could have shut down the whole lengthy stay-at-home nonsense. How many trillions did this over-regulation cost?

[Svartalfiar]

April’s jobs report was the worst in U.S. history, with 20.5 million jobs lost thanks to the coronavirus and subsequent lockdowns.

There, that's a little more accurate. How many jobs have actually been lost due to the WuhanVirus directly? Obviously, those who died but the clear majority have been older, retired people. And, really, it's not like dead people's jobs went away, they mostly would be replaced. Then a few people who got sick, but for most, their jobs will support them and still be there once they recover. And again, jobs "lost" here are really a person's employment, the job is still there and would be soon occupied by a new hire.

So, really, 99%+ of these lost jobs have been due to the lockdowns and all these mayors and governors reveling in their idiocy and blind powers.

[upchuck]

Way too many governors, mayors, etc. really overdid the power trip stuff.

Many of the restrictions, like garden seeds by MI gov Whitmer, are just silly.

[lepton]

What’s an OYO? I think this should have been mentioned in the article.

[Retain Mike]

Here is link to an article about the Administrative State.

The short answer about how we got here is that Woodrow Wilson promoted his fiction of a “living Constitution” campaigning for progress using concepts from Social Darwinism and intending the Supreme Court to sit as a permanent Constitutional Convention. He ignored the fact that the Enlightenment was the basis of our Constitution, which found its inspiration in the Christian concept of limitless worth for the individual. Franklin Roosevelt established a myriad of agencies staffed by unelected, unconfirmed experts who would rule and not serve citizens.

Instead of legislating, Congress would create legislators residing within impenetrable agencies. Instead of inherent liberties constraining government, a host of bureaucrats then conferred rights upon and applied constraints to citizens.