Posts tagged Bureaucrat

This past year our representatives in Washington continued on their road to the status quo - basically doing nothing to change America’s course to economic destruction.  Supercommittees, debt deals, few billion cut over a 10 year period… failures on all fronts, from both parties. 

But if Congress is bad, the regulations that poured out of the White House in 2011 were the worst. 

The Heritage Foundation narrowed these economy killers down to a top 10.  Billions of dollars will be lost, tens of thousands of jobs lost or not created.  

In the face of prolonged high unemployment, rampant underemployment, devastating energy prices and amid growing uncertainty in the Middle East, there is no rationale for excessively burdensome regulations.  This leaves any common sense thinker to believe Obama just doesn’t care about unemployment rates or energy prices — at all.  

6. The Bring on the Blackouts Rule. The EPA is proposing to force power plants to reduce mercury by 90 percent within three years—at an estimated cost of $11 billion annually. A significant number of coal-fired plants will actually exceed the standard—by shutting down altogether. Indeed, grid operators, along with 27 states, are warning that the overly stringent regulations will threaten the reliability of the electricity system and dramatically increase power costs. Just like candidate Obama promised.

But why stop there?  The bureaucrats in Washington must spend days trying to find more idiotic rules to lay on businesses and people. 

Remember reading the dumbest laws in America and you learned in Ocean City, NY that you could not play pinball machines on Sunday?  I swear the overpaid “rule makers” in DC sit around and try to find even more ridiculous policies to lay on us.

For example:

4. The Equine Equality Rule. As of March 15 (the Ides of March, no less), hotels, restaurants, airlines, and the like became obliged to modify “policies, practices, or procedures” to accommodate miniature horses as service animals. According to the Department of Justice, which administers the rule, miniature horses are a “viable alternative” to dogs for individuals with allergies or for observant Muslims and others whose religious beliefs preclude canine accompaniment.

This is what we are paying our government to do.  And this is why they are the Worst of the Worst in 2011.