Obama adds 608 new government regulations JUST IN JULY!

regulations that help keep our air clean, our water clear and safe are good things to me. I make no apology for thinking that we need the regulations because historically companies will not regulate themselves. I want the world my grand children inherit to be as clean, or cleaner and healthier than the one we have now. Having grown up near the steel mills, I know what industry without regulations looks like and smells like, and it ain't pretty. I saw what unregulated industry did to my beloved Lake Erie before they were forced to clean up their act.

archer wrote: regulations that help keep our air clean, our water clear and safe are good things to me. I make no apology for thinking that we need the regulations because historically companies will not regulate themselves. I want the world my grand children inherit to be as clean, or cleaner and healthier than the one we have now. Having grown up near the steel mills, I know what industry without regulations looks like and smells like, and it ain't pretty. I saw what unregulated industry did to my beloved Lake Erie before they were forced to clean up their act.

It is one thing to regulate air and water so that it is not harmful. It is quite anther thing to impose regulations on those aspects of air and water that have no impact on their clarity or safety. Such BS our government is constantly doing . You statement "...historically companies will not regulate themselves." is applicable to decades ago. Then again there is no incentive. Slapping costly regulations is not a strong motivator, quite the opposite. Many companies will bristle and do the minimal to get by. Positive moves, like encouraging research and innovation by rewarding it is far more motivating. No one wants to be beaten by the bully in town and that is what bullsh** regulations like the ones passed do. Oh yes, you can point to the progress you made in cleaning up the air and water and pound yourselves on the back for your accomplishments, but while you do that the industries slip out of town and unemployment goes up. It's a rather myopic perspective if you ask me. Let's face it. Businesses try to make money not spend it. Give them an incentive to make more money by finding ways of using waste products to do so, is a win win situation. No?

neptunechimney wrote:
It may not show but there is a lot of good stuff that I will not post because it is too easy to sneer at the source.

Thats too bad, if it is reasonable, go ahead and post it. I don't trust the main stream media to investigate everything. Let em sneer all they want. We have to read all the Huffy Puffy garabge. I don't even mind some of that if its fact-based, and not just slanted opinion.

Wow, Obama is adding more regulations than jobs, that's the kind of hope and change I was looking for. Pretty soon the country will be bound by regulation chains and hope for China to conquer us to give us some freedom.

I find this perspective likely to find the right target here. Quoting Karen Travis in speaking about Jason Solo's character she writes about in Star Wars:

Sadly, in my previous career——as a journalist and later as a spin doc working with politicians —— I saw that very pattern of human behavior time after time. And I can watch it now in politicians in my own UK government. I won't get too political here, but the capacity of of those with power to make themselves believe in their eyes purity of purpose even when it is obvious to those around them that they are doing bad things and beyond bad is staggering to behold. They really do shift into a parallel world that only they can see, and shut out all dissent as they focus on what they want and what they want to hear.

Adding goverment regulations creates jobs! They have to hire the goverment employees who goof off watching porn like the SEC. And companies like the one I work at have to hire another body to keep abreast of all the new regulations. It does kill margins, and profits, and new regulations tend to hurt smaller businesses. They just don't have the money to keep up with the new rules.

Looking at the link posted in the first comment, I didn't see the list, either in full or partial, of the regulations that were added. Where would a person go to find this information? I'd like to see what was added to see if it is BS or helpful or what...

neptunechimney wrote:

Something the Dog Said wrote: Geez, you guys are such tools. The "proof" that Viking cited is just another of his many outrages and lies. So a republican politician hands out a one page political ad that makes claims with no support for these alleged "facts". Typical conservative BS.

Are you saying you do not believe it?

I am saying that I do not believe any post that Viking makes, and that more importantly, there is not a single shred of evidence contained in the linked press release by the republican politician.