tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post6895255936345524689..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Feds Announce Drastic Deregulation of Cherry PiesSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-4321696835040968812019-05-18T12:54:04.813-04:002019-05-18T12:54:04.813-04:00Rick, I had a similar talk from about EPA rules in...Rick, I had a similar talk from about EPA rules instead of OSHA. They stacked about a three foot tall stack of regs on the table and said, "what do you think the chances are that you didn't break one of the regulations in here in the last year?" <br /><br />The chance is zero by design. It employs lawyers and EPA consultants for one thing. Scares off manufacturing startups for another. The greenies who run the EPA by proxy don't want manufacturing jobs in America. Or people, for that matter. <br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-30614812782796574122019-05-18T12:16:36.722-04:002019-05-18T12:16:36.722-04:00It will matter (or "bear fruit", if you ...It will matter (or "bear fruit", if you will) When either Trump or the head of the Dept. of agriculture announces that the 57 Cherry Pie inspectors, 10 supervisors, and three Undersecretaries of Pie Inpsection are being laid off immediately, and their jobs classified as obsolete in perpetuity, rather than shuffling them over to inspect the size of holes in Swiss Cheese and the quantity of bug parts per ton of sorghum until pensionable.<br /><br />Otherwise, they're just re-arranging deck chairs.<br /><br />Getting rid of the regs is window dressing.<br />Getting rid of the <i>enforcers and administrators</i> of those regs is meat and potatoes action.<br /><br />When I meet former federal pie inspectors and their ilk as barristas and flipping burgers at Mickey D's, we'll be onto something.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-75405730812508306702019-05-18T03:26:35.232-04:002019-05-18T03:26:35.232-04:00What you write reminds me of Philip K. Howard'...What you write reminds me of Philip K. Howard's book, The Death of Common Sense. It continues to be a compelling read of absurd over-regulation.<br /><br />Also, I remember for a Construction Management class, a senior OSHA investigator gave a lecture. He pointed to the very think book containing all the OSHA regulations and said, quote: "If you comply with some regulations in this book it is factual that you will not be in compliance with other OSHA regulations." end quote.<br /><br />He went on to say that no inspector knows or can even enforce all the regulations in this book, the book he called the 'OSHA bible'. I would be surprised if the same is not true for the other alphabet agencies, departments, bureaus.<br /><br />The rule of men promulgated by unelected bureaucrats is the death of us all.<br /><br />RickAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14495862358340777039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-57526162568668217022019-05-18T03:21:11.214-04:002019-05-18T03:21:11.214-04:00Seems like the regulation madness by unelected bur...Seems like the regulation madness by unelected bureauc-rats has taken a hold of most of the Northern Hemisphere to make life difficult for farmers and growers. What worries me though is the only way of getting rid of the blemished cherries, crooked cucumbers and bent bananas, is genetic modification. Which in itself is another rabbit hole. <br /><br />www.wc-news.com/eu-regulations-for-vegetable-for-eating-or-sex-fetish-games/<br />(tongue in cheek)<br />https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4053/eu-regulations<br /><br />Actually, last time I ate swiss cheese, I didn't count the holes in the slices or the size of them. Just tasted fine to me. Toss the regulators.MachtNichtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17207171620224357803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-60264993301345922532019-05-18T03:07:37.101-04:002019-05-18T03:07:37.101-04:00No, no -- the cherry pie standards are an example ...No, no -- the cherry pie standards are an example of <i>good</i> government. The terms are objective and defined. The CFR Swiss cheese recipe would actually make Swiss cheese. Compare this to the Social Security recipe, which does not produce retirement, it produces national bankruptcy.<br /><br />Speaking of the SSA, the FL driver's license office gives out licenses in the form of a plastic card in one appointment. The SSA is still giving out paper cards, which cannot be laminated without de-officializing them, and it takes two weeks to receive them by mail. Obviously, the SSA is evil for the sake of being evil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-7153458469288724282019-05-18T00:56:25.097-04:002019-05-18T00:56:25.097-04:00Now that President Trump is dumping the regulation...Now that President Trump is dumping the regulations, how about getting rid of the regulators, too?drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-37536767914141695042019-05-17T23:34:16.486-04:002019-05-17T23:34:16.486-04:00Always remember, regulators get paid for regulatin...Always remember, regulators get paid for regulating. If they didn't write regulations, they'd have to . . . work.<br /><br />I recall one regulator (known to a work colleague) who wrote regulations. He wrote them in such a fashion that they were decipherable only by him. After retiring from the government agency in question? Consultant at nearly $300 an hour.John Wilderhttp://wilderwealthywise.comnoreply@blogger.com