Topic: The Administrative State in One Photo

[Pandora]

"On the chair: the original 2,700 page Obamacare legislation. Stacked against the wall: every page of Obamacare regulations published through last week. This stack is 7 feet 3 inches high." - "Tower of Babel", Fausta's Blog

"We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it."

The then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (and may she remain forever a former Speaker) took a lot of ridicule during the debate over the passage of Obamacare when she said that we’d have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.  I thought the critics had this all wrong.  It was, in fact, the most intelligent thing she ever said, albeit unintentionally.  What counts is, as Machiavelli put it, the “effectual truth” of the matter.  And the effectual truth of modern American government is that Congress no longer enacts laws in the meaningful sense of the word.  Instead, they pass wish lists, and delegate the actual lawmaking to unelected administrators.

Simple test: if Congress passes a statute–even one that is 1,600 pages long like Obamacare, but the law can’t go into effect as written, it is not really a law at all.  The simple proof is the photo here that Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office has released, showing the 20,000-plus pages of regulations issued so far for the implementation of Obamacare.  ”Regulation” is just a multi-syllabic word for “law,” after all.  The point is, administrators–the slightly nicer term for “bureaucrats”–now govern us much more than our elected lawmakers do.  One almost wonders why we have elections at all.  (Actually, many bureaucrats actually do wonder this.)

Of course, it remains to be seen whether Obamacare can survive the incomprehensible deadweight this tower of paperwork represents.  And this is only for one recent “law.”  A similar tower of regulations is being produced right now for the other legislative monstrosity from Obamaland, Dodd-Frank.

Quite sickening.  A bureaucratic tyranny.

[Libertas]

Makes me want to misbehave!

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[Pandora]

Makes me want to misbehave!

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I'll say!

Here's the thing, though; with that many regulations, even if anyone wants to behave, he'll find himself in violation anyway.

[Glock32]

Which of course is a feature not a bug. The last thing they want is a law abiding citizenry. They want to always have something to hold over the head of any given citizen.

[Libertas]

Which of course is a feature not a bug. The last thing they want is a law abiding citizenry. They want to always have something to hold over the head of any given citizen.

That's it!  These people are all about coercion, they'll hide it and couch it in gobbledeegook and bureaucratic bullshyt, but it is always about coercing people!

The stupid sheeple won't care, some may grumble a bit, but they will obey, the statists know this, their target is dual purpose, the other nefarious goal is to isolate and identify the resistors.  The reistors will have every bureaucratic and quasi-legal hammer come down on their asses faster than shyt through a goose!  We've seen it numerous times already with businesses targeted by the Feds for punishment (Gibson Guitar Co) or all the people we know targeted by local jackasses for ridiculous zoning variance infractions or EPA cracking down on people for disturbing wetlands based upon a rain-filled fricken puddle!

These SOBs are just getting started!