People produce goods and services, create wealth, and through their talent and hart work are making America a better place. At the heart of our economic system you have someone with an idea on how to make the world a better place by providing a good or service better than others, and then you have people who help this person to make their dream a reality. Some of these dreams are big (Bill Gates dreamed of making a better home computer) and some of these dreams are small (I dream of being an entertaining and interesting freelance writer and radio personality with a perspective that others don't have), but what makes our nation hum is that we all have the freedom to explore these gifts and ideas and the freedom to work hard to make our dreams a reality.
Except when we can't because our dreams and hard work and ideas are blocked by government regulations. Regulations serve a purpose in our nation- they protect public spaces, they protect areas that are owned by the collective nation, they protect lives, and they protect the freedom of people to participate in our nation- and so it is to be expected that in our nation of laws and standards that there will be laws and standards.
Truth in labeling laws, laws against dumping chemical sewage into lakes and rivers, etc- are reasonable and responsible regulations. Twenty or thirty years ago, I would guess that most people would say that most of the reasonable and responsible regulations had already been passed, and that people were pretty well protected in our nation under its laws.
In 2008, I think most of the people in our nation felt that our nation was pretty well regulated; in fact, many perhaps felt that it was heavily regulated, but very few were demanding a massive explosion in the number of regulations and regulators in our nation.
And yet, one of the fastest growing employment sectors in our nation since March of 2010 is in federal regulatory agencies. President Barack Obama (Democratic President since 2009) and his Democratic allies in the House (Democrat control from 2007-2011) and Senate (Democrat control from 2007) have decided that although the number of private sector jobs has grown only 1.4% that our federal government needed to hire vastly more employees whose sole employment purpose is to control these private citizens, to make rules regarding their behaviors, to enforce those rules, and to punish these citizens when they break the rules that these regulatory agencies invent.
It is tyranny, plain and simple, when regulatory agencies who are not elected and who are unaccountable break down the separation of powers in our nation and exceed their authority to further their political agenda's, and while our nation is willing to tolerate this at a low level, under President Obama and the Democrats this sort of tyranny has exploded in size and number and cost.
Employment at regulator agencies has climbed 13% since Obama took office, and in the past year alone the number of people who are hired to control our economy and its people has grown by 5.2%!
I maintain that anyone- anyone Republican or Democrat- would be a better President than Barack Obama, and the Democrats who have supported his agenda and backed him deserve to lose their jobs too for this misplaced trust in a President who is choking off job creation through excessive regulations and misusing taxpayer money by hiring more and more regulators while the United States of America goes bankrupt.
Hat-tip to Ace of Spades.
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