Let's face it folks, President Obama's Regulatory Reduction Program to reduce the bureaucracy for businesses, so that we can reduce unemployment is a fantasy.
No, the idea is fine, we should reduce the red-tape, we have too otherwise we won't have any businesses doing much hiring in the future.
But the way that the President is going about it suggests that the best people to reduce regulations are the groups that made them in the first place.
Well, that's just utterly ridiculous, it's like practicing the definition of insanity, over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and well you get the point.
There was an interesting article recently in Government Executive in the online issue of February 4, 2011 titled "Obama's chief regulatory reviewer expands guidance to agencies" by Charles S.
Clark.
In the article it stated the following; The impresario of the Obama administration's quest to identify regulations that are outdated, inefficient or "plain stupid" has released expanded guidance to agencies, giving them 100 days to draft strategies that "promote public participation, improve integration and innovation, increase flexibility, ensure scientific integrity, and increase retrospective analysis of existing rules.
Now then, you can go to the White House website and download the pdf file of the memorandum sent out to all the agencies, but it's very long and complicated.
So, basically what is being done here is they are putting in such complicated criteria, which must be applied to each regulation, and to do it right actually each line of text, then debated by guess whom? Lawyers, government regulators, the public consumer rights groups, public environmentalists, and businesses.
"My Dear Sir, It's never going to happen because these folks in Washington DC have their noggins up their buttocks.
" - Hey, don't laugh, that's the way I see it.
Just look at the rules they created to reduce the rules, and you can see the challenge, it's a problem with mindset.
As an entrepreneur, it's clear as day to me, I mean this is really, really simple stuff.
We have too many regulations, which has created too much case law, with too much litigation in the market place.
There is too much paper work required by businesses and too many duplicated rules, licenses, fees, and fines.
The tax code is a joke, and everyone knows it.
Corporate Tax rates are too high, and small businesses are getting creamed at every level of government.
Come on people think.
You know what we really need? Someone who has run a business before, someone with some balls, someone who will put the BS aside and do what's best for the country regardless of the politics, lobbyists, labor unions, or special interest public protesting groups.
Please consider all this.