Comment by carom
3 years ago
The problem now is that the government is large and it is nearly impossible to shed the cruft that has accumulated.
3 years ago
The problem now is that the government is large and it is nearly impossible to shed the cruft that has accumulated.
The size is less a problem than our system stabilizing at two viable parties, both of which would stand to lose a great deal of power if they actually fixed some of the core problems with the Constitution.
It's not that the government is "large". It's that the representatives from different parties are unable to work together to get stuff done. I think it's mostly the way the media cover politics - they can't be seen to be weak.
Nothing ever gets shed or revised. The stale regulatory agencies are captured, corrupted, and stale/weak.
OSHA has no teeth (they are just a nuisance to the scofflaws)
FTC is underpowered
EPA needs shut down
FDA is on record for enabling very harmful medical devices
I remember something about Boeing colluding with regulators to put people in harms way.
I could hop on a search engine and dig up a tome-worth of completely unacceptable shit from the last 40 yrs in this regard.
We'd be so much better if there were no environmental rules, wouldn't we? Medical regulation, who needs it?
"Starve the beast" is a political strategy employed by American conservatives to limit government spending by cutting taxes, to deprive the federal government of revenue in a deliberate effort to force it to reduce spending.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
The most dangerous, murderous things in history are powerful central governments. They are like the Ring of Power, everyone thinks they can wield it for good, but it doesn't work out that way.
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And what does spending indicate. Has the beast been starved?
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