all of them. out.

Reason #867783 Why Our Country Is Screwed:

We met to discuss a series of recent pronouncements that will significantly impact my clients. Generally speaking, these are going to be selective regulations, that you will probably never know about, but will cost you somewhere in the range of $3-4 a day.

Now, I mention this, because what they are proposing strikes directly at the heart of the great nation.

Specifically, it is their position that the regulation is warranted – in fact it is a grand injustice and extraordinary financial discrimination not to implement – because one state doesn’t regulate for this asinine proposal, while Illinois does. And so, in Obama’s world view, the solution isn’t less regulation – and perhaps de regulating Illinois, but rather mandating onerous regulations around the rest of the country so that Illinois residents are not at a disadvantage.

I often wonder if our predecessors would be able to recognize the country we have crafted for ourselves, and how far back we would have to go before they started slapping us upside the backs of our heads and telling us to unscrew ourselves. It seems as though that temporal distance is getting short and shorter…
I think it is time for a “Conservation of Legislation” Amendment… For every bill, law, legislation, or rule passed by Congress and signed by the President, an equivalent amount of legislation must be repealed – print out the bill you want to have passed, count up its number of pages using a standardized printer, font, and format (or just count the number of words), and then determine how many other laws or parts of other laws you would have to repeal to balance out the new guy.
Conversely, we could have a “Conservation of Effort” Amendment… Every other year, Congress may only repeal laws. They may both repeal and pass laws otherwise, but the only thing they could do every other year is get rid of already-existing legislation (certain things, like budgets and appropriations, would have to be adjusted accordingly, but that would not be hard). Sure, the end result of this would likely be that they do absolutely nothing on those “off” years, but that would be better than what we have now.
Seriously, when was the last time Congress repealed a law that did not already have a built-in expiration date? Speaking of, how about that for an idea – an automatic five-year expiration for all legislation passed, with the option to vote to renew it after those five years. Said vote must be done individually for each legislation, said legislation must be read aloud (as all legislation should be), and only those who were present (and conscious) for 95% of the reading may vote. If only, eh?