I wish people would just start doing what is necessary to make a civilization work and tell the Feds to go fornicate themselves.
People. Yup. All people, or
many people need to start sticking together to get it done and that means throwing out whole lot of rules and regs and that means no CYA behind which to hide.
Anything rebuilt in Sandy Hook needs permitting; the permitting requirements are set by multiple boards, Planning/Zoning/Environmental and, if I'm not mistaken, are superceded by any more stringent State regs which are superceded by any more stringent Federal rules.
So, Jones goes off to the permitting office to get permission to repair his property and finds out it's going to cost out-of-pocket money he doesn't have, and costs which the insurance company won't cover without the pre-existing special, particular riders, because the "standards have changed", and who exactly is going to put his job/pension/neck on the line to tell Jones to go ahead and ignore the bullspit, he'll cover for him?
Roger Simon, of PJ Media, is going through all of this right now, and many others like him. After Katrina, the EPA or whothehellever went around the whole country re-rating levees and dams and the like, creating, in effect, new flood-plain zones. Requiring new "standards". Because of this, what Simon et al. have run into requires rebuilding on 20 foot stilts.
It [government] covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. - Alexis de Tocqueville
It is for this reason alone, this sense of STIFLE, that I wish to see it all burn.