With respect to Mr. Rolley I can’t help but notice the part about “limiting air and water pollution” in his mention of the EPA and its costly regulations. I respect that costs can be high. But I believe preventing pollution of the air and water is more important. And I ain’t some hippy tree huger. I like to breath clean air and drink clean water. I feel that if a company is polluting the air and water they are not just affecting themselves they are affecting others without either their knowledge or consent or both. While I can respect that overzealous and redundant regulations are bad I do not see Mr. Rolley or any of the big republican and conservative pundits and politicians say that. Its just there is too much regulation and we need to start getting rid of agencies and slashing regulations. The trouble is while those regulations cost money they also prevent unsafe and unnecessary practices. One can survive within the rules. Apart from redundant rules I do not see how there is a need to engage in potentially harmful activities in order to preserve a business. If a business needs to survive by polluting the air and water around it or if there is simply too much cost to keep the work environment safe and ensure quality products are being delivered to the consumer I do not think that business or business owner should be trusted. What I hear when I hear people decrying regulations is “Its too difficult to be successful with all these regulations”. With all due respect there are plenty of business’s that survive and succeed within the rules and adhering to the regulations. Not all regulations are needed or useful. But we need to clarify as such instead of making broad generalizing statements that compare an increase in regulations to a tsunami and declare it as good that regulations have been removed without specifying the regulations. Regulations are not the enemy of economic growth. No more then any laws are the enemy of personal growth. Laws may be difficult to work within but there is a reason for them.

Pray for a meteor strike or an EMP attack. Government is evil. More government is more evil. Rules and regulations are for slaves.

No one every talks about the fact that only Congress has the Constitutional authority to write laws. They also have NO Constitutional authority to delegate their legislative authority to another government Branch or Agency.

It’s really too bad that the people and the States don’t simply tell the federal regulatory agencies what they can do with their ‘regulations.’

why not just raise the price of consumer products by 25% and then let the people cry foul to the grand master. and of course he will say bush made me do it

I often wonder how many these social commentators and pretend experts have ever sat down on a Friday morning and signed a stack of pay checks.

The same tired old mantra from the right. A “regulatory TIDAL WAVE”? “STRANGLING the nation with regulations”? The elimination of HUNDREDS of regulations back in January was only MODESTLY helpful but the ONSLAUGHT of barely 100 new regulations is going to KILL the economy? Please, enough with overwrought hand-wringing and fear-mongering..

Without even looking at the “new” regulations, it is safe to say that many are just updates of old regulations that the corporations have been trying to eliminate, some are probably even mildly acceptable to the corporations because their lobbyists were up to their elbows in writing them, and all of the ones that “business” finds “objectionable” put the interests of the plutocracy and the corporate oligarchy ahead of the best interests of the country and the 99%.

It is time that the game of the greedy rich has some new rules put in place to redress the imbalance. We cannot continue the game of privatizing gain and socializing risk forever.
The clean air and clean water rules are a case in point—-EVERYONE suffers from dirty air and dirty water, even people many hundreds of miles from the pollution sources. EVERYONE pays the price in damage to health and increased medical costs. Why are they going to be so expensive to implement? Perhaps because “business” should have been absorbing the costs of doing it “clean” right from the beginning rather than maximizing their profits. (and the “fixes” WILL create jobs)

How else is the gubmint going to “take over” business without appearing to “take over” business, if you know what I mean (wink-wink).

That 500 billion in construction costs is going to create a lot of jobs.