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2023-02-11 -Great Cultural Revolution

Biden admin cracks down on washers, fridges in latest climate action: 'Overregulation on steroids'

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-11 03:39|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Overregulation?
Healthcare. Not so much.

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-11 06:35|| 2023-02-11 06:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Can you say 'Soviet Central Planning' boys and girls?

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-02-11 07:19|| 2023-02-11 07:19|| Front Page Top

#3 As Nancy Reagan said "Just say no".

Posted by Glating Johnson9135 2023-02-11 11:05|| 2023-02-11 11:05|| Front Page Top

#4 We now know that several government entities are implicated in 60’s political assassinations including a president. Assassination of the president is not consistent with the constitution. There is a real case to eliminate and replace those entities, or to just whack them without replacement. Certainly, the EPA ought to be whacked as well. Washington has become a resort full of petty warlords carving up our country like a Thanksgiving turkey.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-02-11 11:42|| 2023-02-11 11:42|| Front Page Top

#5 ..start balancing the budget by zeroing out any agency or department created after 1970.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-02-11 11:56|| 2023-02-11 11:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Sometimes the government gets it right, sometimes not so much. I remember days in the 1960s and early 1970s when the smog in southern California was enough to literally make people sick, some people became seriously ill and some even died. Regulations to make the internal combustion engines in cars were very effective in reducing that pollution. We still have bad days but nothing like it used to be.

But then they introduced low flow toilets which were demonstrably counter-productive. If you have to flush them twice to clear the bowl you are wasting water instead of conserving it. And then if you have to continually plunge the thing to clear the clogs, that is wasting a lot of water.

Government agencies and departments should be required periodically, maybe every year but at least at the start of each new administration, to write detailed justifications for their continued existence. These justifications could be reviewed by Congress and followed with appropriate legislation which could include the complete elimination of some departments and agencies. In other cases, the budgets could be significantly reduced. Businesses that waste money on ineffective programs fall behind their competition and go bankrupt. Run the government like a business.

Right now I'd say the FBI is the poster boy example of a government agency that needs to justify itself or else be eliminated from the federal budget. FDA, CDC, DoS and DoE should also be scrutinized.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-02-11 12:39|| 2023-02-11 12:39|| Front Page Top

#7 One problem though. Too many entrenched vested interests will fight reform tooth and nail.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-02-11 12:41|| 2023-02-11 12:41|| Front Page Top

#8 So who wants to keep their bugs on ice?

Posted by Regular joe 2023-02-11 15:01|| 2023-02-11 15:01|| Front Page Top

#9 #6 As a retired Agent, I would not be unhappy for the Bureau to go the way of the Edsel or DoDo bird

Posted by Jack Salami 2023-02-11 15:33|| 2023-02-11 15:33|| Front Page Top

#10 I have an "energy efficient" dryer. I have to run a single load of clothes through twice to get them dry.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-02-11 16:03|| 2023-02-11 16:03|| Front Page Top

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