The total US economy is 13 trillion per year. One trillion is spent on complying with regulations. Something is wrong here.
A new video produced by the Republican Study Committee (RSC) for the Internet this week opens with Rep.Cynthia Lummis standing beside a Caterpillar tractor and pointing to a stack of new federal regulations that is taller than she is. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that an economy is less able to create new jobs when it costs more than $1 trillion a year to comply with federal regulations. In an effort to spark job creation, the House has passed -- with bipartisan majorities -- 15 bills in 2011 designed to loosen this regulatory straitjacket, as well as simplify the tax code and enable the energy industry to expand domestic production and employment.
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The government bureaucrats are allowed to be busy little bees under the Obama administration. They are trying to control everything from what's in the ground, the food we eat and the air that we breathe. (Sounds like an old Beatles song, “Taxman”) The latest hint for all to see that something is wrong is the federal testing of the Emergency Alert System. FEMA wants to test the emergency system to see if it can successfully control all the TV and cable stations. This has never been done before. Only on local broadcasting networks have this system been used in the past.
It could be a useful system if only used in the most dire national emergency but government agencies always look to increase their power, especially under a progressive administration.
And for the conspiratorial among us, this could easily be used to declare martial law across the nation after either a real or contrived terror event. Remember that there is already pending legislation to control the internet. If Obama were given 4 more years, would he abuse that power?
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