Regulatory agencies EXPLODE under Obama--costing an additional 38 BILLION per year.

[KissMy]

Food prices are soaring because of all these regulations. Last week they decided to fine farmers for dust. I hope democrats love going hungry.

 

[California Girl]

Have we worked out where most of this $38b has been spent on yet?

Jobs.

Classic 'let's hide the unemployment figures' maneuver..... the EU governments have been doing it for years.... at least, they were.... till their house of cards came tumbling down. Oops. Typical fucking Democrats... follow every fucked up socialist lite program of the EU - and totally ignore the fucking disaster that is Europe because of these policies.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

More Government costs more Money? No way! Can't be!

 

[oreo]

Well, it's good to see that someone is doing something to help stimulate the economy.

Only "you" would see this as stimulative to the economy. Things like this are part of the reason why the economy keeps wallowing in the three year quagmire it's been in. Progressives love this crap. Anyone trying to run a business hates it.

Liberals are left leaning socialists--they believe that the Government can do anything better than the private sector even though they have been proved wrong 10,000 times over and over again.

 

[oreo]

Food prices are soaring because of all these regulations. Last week they decided to fine farmers for dust. I hope democrats love going hungry.

It was just a couple of weeks ago that the federal government wanted kids licensed to drive farming equipment and trucks. As we all know kids who grow up on farms--learn to drive at an early age--and the Federal Government was tying to legislate drivers license's on PRIVATE farming property.

The farmers raised cain about this--and then the government backed off.

 

[oreo]

Yeah but but, his cult followers will say he is doing it, to SAVE US..

And you wonder why Unemployment is STILL over 9%.

Go to the polls in 2012 folks, vote OUT the Obama and his distructive administation

Well-then-Obama is "saving" us to DEATH--

 

[Oldstyle]

Food prices are soaring because of all these regulations. Last week they decided to fine farmers for dust. I hope democrats love going hungry.

It was just a couple of weeks ago that the federal government wanted kids licensed to drive farming equipment and trucks. As we all know kids who grow up on farms--learn to drive at an early age--and the Federal Government was tying to legislate drivers license's on PRIVATE farming property.

The farmers raised cain about this--and then the government backed off.

I grew up on a dairy farm and was driving farm equipment before I was big enough to reach the pedals. Dad would push in the clutch and put it in gear and then I'd steer the tractor or truck standing on the seat. When my Dad wanted me to stop I'd grab the bottom of the steering wheel and swing down so I could push in the clutch and hit the brake. Gosh, seeing something like THAT would give the Feds a stroke. They'd probably want people arrested for all the hours I worked back then as well. Child labor laws, you know. That attempt by the Feds to license farm kids is just one more example of a group of people that just don't get it.

 

[Charles_Main]

While the private-sector is drowning under a perpetual recessionary storm, U.S. regulatory agencies are flourishing. "If the federal government’s regulatory operation were a business, it would be one of the 50 biggest in the country in terms of revenues, and the third largest in terms of employees, with more people working for it than McDonald’s, Ford, Disney and Boeing combined," writes John Merline of Investors.com.

Indeed, the federal regulatory business is thriving, and if there is one "victory" President Obama can declare, this is it, because government regulation has grown rapidly under his watch.

Regulatory agencies have seen their combined budgets grow a healthy 16% since 2008, topping $54 billion, according to the annual "Regulator's Budget," compiled by George Washington University and Washington University in St. Louis.

That's at a time when the overall economy grew a paltry 5%.

Since Obama took office, 75 new major regulations have been enacted, costing $38 billion annually, according to a study by the Heritage Foundation. "No other president has imposed as high a number or cost in a comparable time period," wrote James Gattuso, the study’s author.

The Heritage study predicts that this flood of new red tape will only intensify, as hundreds of new regulations will flow from the tentacles of ObamaCare, the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law, and the EPA’s war on global warming.

Regulatory Agencies Boom Under Obama Administration

Proof that the Federal Government has grown in leaps and bounds while the private sector continues to shrink under the Obama administration.

My favorite new regulatory policy of the Obama administration--is the new Goat/Sheep herder legislation.

Team Obama Regulates Goat Herders' Workplaces - HUMAN EVENTS

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And that 38 Billion a year is just the Government cost to operate the Agencies. It does not take in to account the Money Business will have to spend to comply with all these regulations.

That cost is well over 100 Billion a year, and that Number is likely VERY VERY LOW.

 

[Lakhota]

Regulatory agencies EXPLODE under Obama--costing an additional 38 BILLION per year.

This is great to help stimulate the economy! Should be more!

 

[Charles_Main]

Food prices are soaring because of all these regulations. Last week they decided to fine farmers for dust. I hope democrats love going hungry.

It was just a couple of weeks ago that the federal government wanted kids licensed to drive farming equipment and trucks. As we all know kids who grow up on farms--learn to drive at an early age--and the Federal Government was tying to legislate drivers license's on PRIVATE farming property.

The farmers raised cain about this--and then the government backed off.

I grew up on a dairy farm and was driving farm equipment before I was big enough to reach the pedals. Dad would push in the clutch and put it in gear and then I'd steer the tractor or truck standing on the seat. When my Dad wanted me to stop I'd grab the bottom of the steering wheel and swing down so I could push in the clutch and hit the brake. Gosh, seeing something like THAT would give the Feds a stroke. They'd probably want people arrested for all the hours I worked back then as well. Child labor laws, you know. That attempt by the Feds to license farm kids is just one more example of a group of people that just don't get it.

Did you see the new Goat Herder Regulations? Think I am joking? Nope, wish I was. One of the rules is that they must provide Goat Herders with CELL PHONES.

I mean wtf, These Liberals think that absolutely nothing should happen with out the Government telling us how it will happen, and how much we have to pay for it to happen.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Regulatory agencies EXPLODE under Obama--costing an additional 38 BILLION per year.

This is great to help stimulate the economy! Should be more!

Why?

 

[Lakhota]

Why?

Under Obama, Regulatory Agencies Step Up Enforcement

Increased enforcement is stimulative...

 

[Oldstyle]

Regulatory agencies EXPLODE under Obama--costing an additional 38 BILLION per year.

This is great to help stimulate the economy! Should be more!

Businesses in the US waste billions of dollars each year trying to comply with governmental regulations...money that could be spent on R&D or raises for their employees. Only someone with ZERO business experience would see that as stimulative to our economy.

I'm guessing that you're either a Poly Sci or Philosophy major? Either that or working at the local GameStop?

 

[midcan5]

"The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy." Alex Carey [see Democracy after Citizens United | MIT World ]


I googled this topic and found every wingnut site under the sun saying the same thing, or even posting the same thing.

Wingnuts, My question for you all is can you ever think on your own, or is it a requirement in wingnutteryland that you all dance or jump or sing when the piper plays? Is it any wonder why conservatives are so bad at governance, you are like a lineup of puppets or dominoes who copy thought and action, but still haven't a clue who it was pulled your strings. Corporate America loves you puppets. Oh by the way, any of you guys interested in some prime land cheap?


"For example, at last month's Penn Program on Regulation panel discussion, Rena Steinzor, the president of the Center for Progressive Regulation (CPR), criticized the Administration for freezing funding for regulatory agencies. She has argued that such a freeze “shortchanges [protection against] very real threats to public health.”

The Obama Administration’s budget proposal does call for an overall freeze of domestic discretionary funding, but some regulatory priorities would actually receive increased funding. Some individual regulatory agencies would see some modest overall increases, and other agencies – even those that would see an overall decrease in funding – would nevertheless experience a shift in resources toward more funding for regulatory enforcement."
[...]
"These changes are all in the discretionary, non-defense portion of the federal budget. In contrast, under the President's proposal defense spending would still grow dramatically. As OMB Watch has recently noted, just the proposed increase in defense spending under the budget -- $18 billion – would exceed “the entire discretionary budgets of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Departments of Energy, Interior, and Labor.”" Obama's FY2011 Budget Proposal and Regulatory Agencies - RegBlog

 

[Lakhota]

I'm guessing that you're either a Poly Sci or Philosophy major? Either that or working at the local GameStop?

Try MBA...

 

[Oldstyle]

"The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy." Alex Carey [see Democracy after Citizens United | MIT World ]


I googled this topic and found every wingnut site under the sun saying the same thing, or even posting the same thing.

Wingnuts, My question for you all is can you ever think on your own, or is it a requirement in wingnutteryland that you all dance or jump or sing when the piper plays? Is it any wonder why conservatives are so bad at governance, you are like a lineup of puppets or dominoes who copy thought and action, but still haven't a clue who it was pulled your strings. Corporate America loves you puppets. Oh by the way, any of you guys interested in some prime land cheap?


"For example, at last month's Penn Program on Regulation panel discussion, Rena Steinzor, the president of the Center for Progressive Regulation (CPR), criticized the Administration for freezing funding for regulatory agencies. She has argued that such a freeze “shortchanges [protection against] very real threats to public health.”

The Obama Administration’s budget proposal does call for an overall freeze of domestic discretionary funding, but some regulatory priorities would actually receive increased funding. Some individual regulatory agencies would see some modest overall increases, and other agencies – even those that would see an overall decrease in funding – would nevertheless experience a shift in resources toward more funding for regulatory enforcement."
[...]
"These changes are all in the discretionary, non-defense portion of the federal budget. In contrast, under the President's proposal defense spending would still grow dramatically. As OMB Watch has recently noted, just the proposed increase in defense spending under the budget -- $18 billion – would exceed “the entire discretionary budgets of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Departments of Energy, Interior, and Labor.”" Obama's FY2011 Budget Proposal and Regulatory Agencies - RegBlog

Ah, yes...the Center for Progressive Regulation! Now there's a group that's going to do WONDERS for this country. By the time they get done you'll have to sign a disclaimer in Federal triplicate and pay a special tax if you want a donut with your morning coffee.

 

[Google]

I'm guessing that you're either a Poly Sci or Philosophy major? Either that or working at the local GameStop?

Try MBA...

I'll never understand the motivation behind statements like this. I understand you are responding to a insult, but far too often, and it is always a leftist, been met with posts bragging about someone's income, education, ect.

These are all unverifiable claims and screams bullshit.

 

[Oldstyle]

I'm guessing that you're either a Poly Sci or Philosophy major? Either that or working at the local GameStop?

Try MBA...

You have an MBA? Now that's the funniest thing you've posted yet. As an MBA would you care to explain how it is that government regulations are stimulative to the economy? I'd love for you to share your "expertise" with us.

 

[daveman]

Regulatory agencies EXPLODE under Obama--costing an additional 38 BILLION per year.

This is great to help stimulate the economy! Should be more!

That money comes out of the economy and doesn't produce anything.

 

[daveman]

Why?

Under Obama, Regulatory Agencies Step Up Enforcement

Increased enforcement is stimulative...

Absolutely wrong.