Agency heads and staff in the Biden administration get orders to write regulations for the sake of regulating. They don’t need to have a specific purpose, be grounded in need or science, or have measurable results.
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26 replies on “Peak Government: Team Biden Told to Write Regulations for the Sake of Regulating”
Always wondered- what happens if we get to the point where we have just the RIGHT AMOUNT of laws to get us by (probably reached that point many years ago) and we still have 535 (plus two) people employed for the express purpose of MAKING more laws?
“What would you say you do here?”
Somewhat sad that when you ask someone to lend you their yard stick they think you’re going to beat them with it.
It’s interesting that Biden before he was elected made the comment somewhere along the line that you can’t rule by executive order unless you’re a dictator. I may have that a little off track but that’s pretty much what he said. But now since coming in office he has written one executive order after another. I believe that’s because he figures the Republicans would delay it or hold it up in committees if he just didn’t push it through by executive order. It’s just more of taking away our freedoms.
But Biden only knows what he doesn’t know. He is a puppet on a string.
Damn right Bill!
Madly weaves the spider nocturnal,
Her web is hunt, and home …
… and breakfast diurnal.
This new so-called “administration” is barely two weeks old, and I’m already finding myself thinking about Charlton Heston’s exclamation in “Planet of the Apes”:
“IT’S A MADHOUSE!”
Bill should reach out to Adam Carolla on the subject of California regulations , he’d hear many hilarious yet true rants on that subject.
The people controlling the Biden puppet are all trained Alinskyites , we are seeing several Alinsky type rules in action. One is ‘keep the pressure on’ , new regulations every day ,new executive orders ,the hiring of every perverted freak for government positions combined with constant attacks on Trump, he can’t live where he wants, he can’t bank where he wants p, they constantly threaten to put him in jail , keeping the pressure on. Actually the pressure never let up since he came down the escalator.
Also the executive orders and the regulations put the Republicans in the position of having to repeal them thus it will be reported as ‘taking away’ something or other from some poor victim
It’s my belief that this is a direct response to Trump’s policies of removing federal regulations.
One of his greatest ‘undercover’ accomplishments was the policy that, for every new regulation that was approved, 3 old ones had to be eliminated. This policy never got a lot of publicity, but it was responsible for the removal of (IIRC) over 25,000 regulations from the Federal Register.
I think that this is ‘The Deep State’s’ effort to roll all those regs and restrictions back onto the books. DJT and his legacy must be completely wiped from existence. They are “vanishing the commissar“.
eta: I wrote this post before actually watching the vid. Got a few details wrong which Steve illuminated better.
We have truly gone off the deep end of reality. These people who support this nonsense use to be considered psychologically depraved…and they are, but are now being given a platform to push their agenda. It is sick.
After 43 years as a small business owner in California I’m calling it quits. Although I still enjoy what I do, the avalanche of government regulations and reporting requirements over the past 15 years or so has made it almost impossible to run a profitable business like mine in this state. Couple that with government inspectors who have never spent a day in my trade “certifying” my work and it’s just too much.
I used to ask my retired friends when they knew it was time to retire, their answer, “you’ll know”. They were right.
Bill at 1:07: If anyone in the Biden administration is really interested in “the interests of future generations” they would be working to reform or dismantle Social Security starting yesterday (or perhaps in 1939), and The Great Society a few hours later.
Somewhere out there, there is (I believe) a SCOTUS ruling that administrative rules and regulations cannot be “arbitrary and capricious”. So while the courts tend to give “deference” to the legislative and rule making functions within government, they supposedly did set some limits. A shame we have to revisit this stuff in the courts repeatedly.
If I’m not mistaken we have a law against killing Bald Eagles, the majestic avian that represents our nation as well as field mice and many more wild critters.
We do indeed, and for a good reason. Other critters too. But does anyone remember the snail darter fiasco?
Remember that old thing that “Ignorance of the law is no excuse”? You won’t be able to keep up with the new “laws” so this is how we remove you from society (it’s ok, we didn’t like you anyways).
What percentage of the vote putting Trump into office was a vote for someone who would protect us from government?
Now we will see just how much he WAS protecting us and WHAT we will now have to do to protect ourselves.
I, personally, see little solution outside of dissolution of the union.
We need unimpeded, salutary feedback loops everywhere, and it seems to be the sworn duty of politicians to remove or disable them. I would love to see a requirement for every law and regulation to automatically sunset if it fails to meet its stated goals. Those proposing legislation or penning executive orders would have incentive not to overstate their expected results for fear of missing the mark, and those voting on the bills (or on the pols who bring us the EOs/regulations) would get to judge them based on a more honest assessment of expectations. Any program that failed to achieve its declared, measurable goals by a predetermined assessment date would be stripped of funding and cancelled. Of course they would still find ways to lie and cheat around the edges, but we’d be in much better shape with something like this in place. I wonder if there’s any hope of it, with this much “plaque in the arteries” already (an apt metaphor!).
I watched this show, then followed up by watching “Victim Worship”. Two words came to mind: Cloward-Piven. Break the system by overloading it.
The potential purpose of letting FedGov bureaucracies write rules without limits, application or sense of order is to overload the system to the point people just lose faith and give up. If the states follow suit we are in a world of hurt without surcease. Byzantine.
This would join the other confusions of pronouns, which bathroom to use, institutional (fill in the blank), systemic (fill in the blank)… and so on.
It is so much easier to conquer if your enemy is confused and disorientated.
Superb episode… from first second to the last. Too bad nothing in it sticks where it would matter.
It could only be countered by the business owners, if they worked together. But what I see is each rather bends in the wind and covers from the possible attacks. Thus supporting all the accumulating shit despite seeing very clearly the effects.
Till that changes the only remaining method is starting from scratch and enjoy the period before the gov manages to grab all the powers it was supposed not have.
Regulation is how people connected to the government get wealthy; especially those that write them for big business. There are those that write the regs that are too complex to understand, then leave govt and enter private sector offering their consulting services to shakedown a business to ensure they are complying with these regs. One of the big reasons they hated Trump as well as Reagan because of massive reduction in regulation. Peter Schweizer wrote about this extensively in one of his books.
This is a big deal, but not in the way everyone thinks. Does anyone think that whenever the government wants to do something they don’t rig the numbers to lie that their idea is good (read: Obamacare).
The disturbing part is that they know that the bureaucrats don’t even have to pretend that they don’t hate most of this country anymore.
They have already made it perfectly clear they hate EVERYONE outside the deep blue city-states. Don’t confuse their true identity, Does anyone think Chicago doesn’t control Illinois? Detroit doesn’t control Michigan? Philly doesn’t control Pennsylvania or Baltimore, Maryland? Any time a single city or cities can out-vote the rest of the state, you no longer have a state.
we are the screwed.
… only if we bend over.
Exactly right.