printWhen BHO or any other politician utters trite promises about creating jobs for the little people, we, their Lilliputian subjects, should be able to pipe-up about the regulatory barriers to entering the workforce erected by the very same people.
• A license to speak to tourists without which you go to jail for 90 days
• A test to “practice” flower-arranging
• $30,000 mandatory outlay for an embalming room, if you want to open a funeral parlor
“How are these laws able to get enacted?” asks RT? “Lobbyists and special interest groups infiltrate politics on the federal and local level. They urge lawmakers to pass regulations that benefit them, and keep the competition out. The result: an America growing increasingly regulated. According to the Institute of Justice, in the 1950’s 1 in 20 occupations required a government permit. Today it’s one in three. And all this red tape is costing taxpayers billions.”
Lewd licensure is not a function of BHO’s administration alone, although he has increased the number of billions transferred from the private economy to the blood-sucking bureaucracy.
I would, however, counter that the culprits here are not the lobbyists, who have not taken an oath to uphold the Constitution and work to benefit not factions, but all folks. Politicians have the power to refuse to enact these laws. However, as always, it seems that, psychologically, it is easier for news agencies and the people to blame corporations, Wall Street and K Street, instead of the bums who capitulate to these special interests.
As a practical matter of pricing it should be noted K Street, et al, are paying for time and ‘the usual’.
Voters wanting the their politicians incorruptible will have to pay extra for the experience just as Johns have to pay their hired whores extra for sworn fidelity – ‘the girlfriend experience’.
The nice common folks in the house next door are the oppressors. Always been that way. Politicians always give them what they want and what they want is a government that will work to make everyone behave the way they think people ought to behave.
How to turn this around ? Have peeps stop voting for the likes of Mittens, Santy,Newty, The Big O & vote for Any One that will turn back the road of Government Control, We are heading for at break neck speed !
Ain’t gonna happen Roy. We’ve got active campaigners against Ron Paul in this area. They will take anyone, even Obama, over him. Primary is over and they are still going after Paul. Suicide by vote is the law of the land in Oklahoma.
When the infamous Kelo decision went through on heisting private property to give to other private developers, Republicans complained about the Supreme Court although: (1) many of the justices that ruled in favor of confiscation were Republican appointees and (2) the confiscation was being done in a state with a Republican governor. … and so it goes with “regulations” – both parties are sinners. The Republicans just pretend they don’t sin while they sin while the Democrats are proud of their sins!
A great example of bipartisan bureaucracy – the TSA!
By the way, do these statists understand that a free-market is SELF-REGULATING?? Crappy products, in fact, do not sell because consumers will cease to buy them. They neither need protection from competition, regulation to keep out competitors, nor protection from tort liability if the market is allowed to operate!