Steve Jobs to Obama: "You're Headed for a One-Term Presidency" (Reagan, health care system)
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You're going to have to continue to become more conservative so that you don't immediately dismiss what regulations mean... I don't have a lot of hope for liberals to do that though.
3,000 pages of new regulations with Obamacare alone. Then try Dodd/Frank and all his (Obama's) czars.
I'm curious as to your response on if you think those things are more or less regulatory.
Well, since the post I was referring to was pointing out that Jobs never complained to the previous President about regulations...
"If spending under Mr. Bush was a disaster, regulation was even worse. The number of pages in the Federal Registry is a rough proxy for the swollen expanse of the regulatory state. In 2001, some 64,438 pages of regulations were added to it. In 2007, more than 78,000 new pages were added. Worse still, argues the Mercatus Center economist Veronique de Rugy, Mr. Bush is the unparalleled master of "economically significant regulations" that cost the economy more than $100 million a year. Since 2001, he jacked that number by more than 70%. Since June 2008 alone, he introduced more than 100 economically significant regulations."
Well, since the post I was referring to was pointing out that Jobs never complained to the previous President about regulations...
"If spending under Mr. Bush was a disaster, regulation was even worse. The number of pages in the Federal Registry is a rough proxy for the swollen expanse of the regulatory state. In 2001, some 64,438 pages of regulations were added to it. In 2007, more than 78,000 new pages were added. Worse still, argues the Mercatus Center economist Veronique de Rugy, Mr. Bush is the unparalleled master of "economically significant regulations" that cost the economy more than $100 million a year. Since 2001, he jacked that number by more than 70%. Since June 2008 alone, he introduced more than 100 economically significant regulations."
Everything Jobs said I agree with and I consider myself a liberal. The regulation that needed to be implemented was on Wall Streets shadow banking practices and the Federal Reserve also needs to be restructured so we can stop these crazy boom-bust cycles. As for red tape on small businesses, manufacturing, and infrastructure, I fully agree with Jobs. And I definitely agree about unions in the schools. Unions have their place, but not in education.
But yet I bet you hate Walker and Christie. I bet you will still vote for the regulater in chief.
So you are for all those things that Obama is not but I am sure you will still vote for. Thats why this country is in dire trouble. You could never pull the lever for anyone that doesn't have a D next to the name.
That would be you failing on a GD astronomical level.
Answer my question. Why didn't Jobs tell other presidents that they'd have ONE TERM when according to conservatives, regulations on business have been burdensome for DECADES.
Answer that. And again, find a quote of Jobs discussing Obamacare. I'm not taking your word for it.
BTW...i'll stick to my belief that you're no different than anyone else on here. Working stiff.
How's this for insane regulation.
A volcano spews mega tons of ash and dust into the air. Can't do anything about that. Huge dust storms spews mega tons of dust on a southwest city. Can't do anything about that. BUT the EPA makes a farmer keep track of the amount of dust his tractor wheels kick up while he's plowing a field.
Funny...all of these regulations that he complained about existed under previous presidencies.
Did Steve Jobs ever tell any of those guys that they were headed for a single term?
The Federal Register has not published thousands of pages of new regulations under Obama? The EPA has launched no expansions of the Clean Air Act under Obama? Or declared CO2 an emission to be regulated? Dem legislation has not created vast new layers of bureaucracy for the productive sector to navigate, in the attempt to make "profit" which the president pronounces as a swear word?
Wake up, Rip Van Winkle. It is 2011 and the Obama administration is strangling the economy.
But yet I bet you hate Walker and Christie. I bet you will still vote for the regulater in chief.
So you are for all those things that Obama is not but I am sure you will still vote for. Thats why this country is in dire trouble. You could never pull the lever for anyone that doesn't have a D next to the name.
So when the R's had all the power, why didn't they simply gut every single regulatory agency with the ultimate intention of closing them down?
The Federal Register has not published thousands of pages of new regulations under Obama? The EPA has launched no expansions of the Clean Air Act under Obama? Or declared CO2 an emission to be regulated? Dem legislation has not created vast new layers of bureaucracy for the productive sector to navigate, in the attempt to make "profit" which the president pronounces as a swear word?
Wake up, Rip Van Winkle. It is 2011 and the Obama administration is strangling the economy.
I'm sorry, but right wingers have been complaining about regulations for as long as i can remember, and i started following politics some thirty years ago.
I'll ask you the same thing...when the R's had all the power, why didn't they simply gut the regulatory agencies to the point that these archaic rules would be unenforceable?
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