That book would be difficult to read, and especially if a new page were added every two hours and nine minutes. That is according to a publication called “Ten Thousand Commandments,” published yearly by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. In it, Richard Hudson, R. N.C., said regarding the regulations and rules for Obamacare, “Even though the regulations haven’t (fully) been written yet, we’ve already got 33,000 pages of regulations which they’ve already written.” Bureaucrats wrote 828 pages in one day, which may be a record.
The 2015 edition said that if regulations were a nation, “It would be the tenth largest in the world.” The 2017 edition said that, “It would be the seventh largest in the world.” “Regulations cost American consumers and businesses $1.8 trillion.” In just two years, the 2017 edition said that costs were $1.96 trillion. “Regulatory costs average $14,976 per household, or 29% of the average family’s budget.” The 1996 edition said regulatory costs were 19%. “Regulatory compliance costs exceed all taxes collected by the IRS, by more than $160 billion.” The 2017 edition says that, “Compliance costs for 2016 were half of what the federal government spent, which was $3.854 trillion, or $1.92 trillion.” Regulations, especially under Obama grew like Topsy. Politifact, says that under Obama, 468,500 pages of regulations were written.
The Trump administration has eliminated thousands of regulations by Executive Order, and more will come. Federal employment numbers decreased by 19,000 in 2016, his first year, and more will be retired and not replaced. It’s virtually impossible to fire a federal employee, whose basic salary at entry level is $100,000 a year. Can you imagine that? And an entry level employee in a private business is $14,800. The D.C. “Swamp,” is indeed in need of draining. The Democrat king and queen of the swamp regime, and their acolytes, now are saying that Donald Trump is stupid and unfit to be President. Oh sure! So stupid, that he was first in his class in college, was a top rated TV star for 10 years, and built a sprawling $10 billion business empire virtually single handedly, although he did borrow a couple of million from his dad to get started. The highest income in America is in swamp country D.C., and populated with politicians and hangers on. When I grew up in D.C. there were bad neighborhoods. When I returned briefly a couple of years ago, there are no more bad neighborhoods. All the former bad neighborhoods are now gentrified, with tiny 25 foot wide houses going for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The old 7th and Florida N.W. used to be ghastly, and now very expensive. See what an entry level of $100,000 a year can bring? It Increases the swamp area! The swamp of course, has an excruciatingly high crime rate. Former mayor Marion Barry said that “The D.C. crime rate wouldn’t be bad except for the murders.”
It is going to require a lot of determination to weather the left’s continual lies, books, and control of the media, but he can do it. The latest smear is from the new book “Fire and Fury,” which is already in first place at Amazon, but in today’s “Drudge Report,” its author, Michael Wolff says that he can’t be sure that parts of it are true, and on Fox News, it is reported that the Washington Post, that haven of anti-Trump nonsense, is examining every page of that book, and in just one page has found three errors. I hope that Michael Wolff is consigned to the poor house as a result of lawsuits that are certain to occur. No, I am not going to buy it.
The current New England down to Florida frigid weather, which is breaking all records, gives credence to Al Gore’s ‘earth warming,’ doesn’t it? Last week, Fox News got all messed up, and I went to PBS news hour, and was astonished at its crudeness. The sets and entire show were so amateurish as to imitate, to me anyway, what a show would look and sound like if it were put on by a high school class. What do they do with all those contributions anyway? Certainly not build a appetizing news show. – Don Stott 1-888-786-8822