Spend just a few minutes browsing through the DOGE website. Pay particular attention to the very last section, which outlines the scale of regulation under which we have to live our lives. An example:
That’s over fourteen million words, spread over sixteen thousand individual regulations. (Ten guesses as to what number are devoted to the tax code. If you guessed “most”, go to the head of the class.)
How about the stupid Environmental Protection Agency?
Now look at the dozens of other departments… all the while remembering that the original federal government was predicated upon having but two departments: Treasury and War (Defense).
Then, when you have absorbed the immensity of our federal government and the burden of living under this forest of laws and thicket of regulations, please explain to me why we shouldn’t just take chainsaws to and start brush fires among the lot of them. And the same to the hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats who “manage” and enforce them.
I feel an attack of Mencken coming on…
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
This is one such time.
All that noise you hear is the sound of people who were greatly benefiting from all that spending. Lining their pockets with Tax payer money Very few were providing a valuable service. Most were literally ” Phoning it in” .
The louder the protesting the more I know it’s working.
How many words and paragraphs are in laws written around the country that violate the second amendment?
The EPA is a fucking joke. How much did they help when that train derailed in East Palestine Ohio?
Most large government departments should either be drastically downsized or even disbanded. Many times the departments are just places that employee total fucking losers who could never find a job anywhere else.
Most of government should be significantly cut down. States can pick up anything that is outside the responsibility of the Federales if it is truly needed and wanted by the citizenry.
The only concern I have is that if these marginally useful (I’m being charitable) idiots are unemployed, will some demagogue like Commissar Sanders and his pet bartender AOC come along and rally this angry mob will they cause their typical violence, disruption and destruction? I think one of the reasons that the American War for Independence occurred in Massachusetts is because the port of Boston was closed which caused a lot of people in the shipping industry to be out of work and put economic strain on the people in the surrounding area.
Our US Constitution is short, sweet and restricts the Federal government. The volumes of regulations that the government puts on the citizenry is beyond disproportional.
Now I’m off to buy a chainsaw
“Now I’m off to buy a chainsaw”
I literally bought a chainsaw a couple of weeks ago. Husqvarna. Was a piece of shit. Returned it to the store. Wouldn’t run for more than 30 seconds to 1 minute before shutting off. Back to the store it went.
Went and bought a Stihl. Not an expensive one. Just something to use in the yard for small branches and smaller trees that need some limbing.
Anyways, chainsaws are needed for the budgets too. Way out of control spending.
I hope you bought a battery powered Stihl. Their gas chainsaws like to be run every day.
Gas powered
Had a Kobalt battery chainsaw. Piece of shit. 5 year warranty. But not based on serial number need your original receipt. I can’t find the receipt and after 2 years online order history goes away on Lowe’s website customer login according to their rep.
I did replace a drill from Kobalt. Got the Receipt online. Then called Kobalt. Got a rma number. Was told to go to store. Went to store they first said no returns after a year. Then ok but we need an ID. Is said I have a receipt no id needed for returns exchanges and warranties without a receipt. Manager said again need receipt. I said I’m an illegal immigrant I don’t have a receipt.
They did replace the drill after Much argument
They are refusing to take care of the chainsaw
So I got my a gas powered stihl. What’s wrong with stihl?
What brand do you like?
Electric doesn’t have enough run time.
I bought a poulin a couple of years ago but haven’t used it. Poulin made commercial grade stuff back after ww2 after husqvarna bought them out. They turned Poulin into a Jerry Homeowner brand which is okay for me. I don’t have a lot of work to do for it. I can drop the trees around me with it if needed and once down I can trim up the logs to move around. I can limb out with it easy enough.
I did some digging and research on models and brands. I just didn’t need to spend big money on something of better quality and longevity. I wanted a Husqvarna until I saw the price. If I wear out the Poulin, I can always upgrade to a better make and model when needed. Quite frankly the chainsaw will spend more time in the garage than doing actual work. If I put 20 hours on that thing in a year that will be a lot.
I thought I read that Stihl’s chainsaws are tough to repair or something but I could be wrong.
Not sure. I have an electric Kobalt that died. It’s not the first piece of electric Kobalt equipment to die and warranty is hard to use.
A few weeks ago I bought a gas powered Husqvarna chainsaw from tractor supply. It would run for 30 seconds if that and then stall. At one point I got it running for 1 min then tried to cut and then it stalled as soon as the blade touched a small branch.
I took that piece of shit back to tractor supply. And before anyone says anything about fuel I used the 100 percent gas pre mixed 50 to 1 oil overpriced Husqvarna brand fuel in the fuel tank and Husqvarna brand chain lube oil for the lube. Husqvarna I wanted to like but it was a piece of shit.
Store didn’t have any more husky models that I had and I kinda didn’t want another one anyways.
Went to a local hardware store (Rocky’s) and the Stihl rep there treated me good. Have only used the saw twice so far once to start it and once to cut up a small tree that fell down but it’s great so far. And parts and people to repair Stihl are available 10 min up the road from me in 2 locations just in the town I live in.
“…predicated upon having but two departments: Treasury and War…”
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Cut everything else, right down to the root.
Remove the burdensome tethers from the productive, let the parasites die off.
Income tax needs to be eliminated to start. It is theft if funds from working people aka akin to slavery. If Income tax is 20 percent for example that means you are forced to work 20 percent of the time for free. How is this not viewed as slavery?
Glad to see I’m not the only one who feels that way. It’s why I also think the criminal code should treat theft as enforced slavery, and punish the sobs found guilty accordingly.
People need to also realize that there are a lot of contradictory pieces of the tax code so you are stuck trying to decide which rule is less likely to get you (or your client) in trouble.
once you eliminate the IRS, you’ll reduce the number of hours the morons in Congress have to sit there trying to figure out ways to how to get these ill-gotten gains into their pockets
I usually pose the question to liberals, If I took 100% of your labor from you for zero pay, poor housing, poor clothing and barely enough food for subsistence, that would be slavery. If you kept 100% of your pay and bought the stuff you wanted on your own, that would be extreme liberty. At what percentage of you labor can I take from you before it goes from extreme liberty to slavery? Is it 90%, 50%, 25% or much lower? If you work a regular 5 day a week job and your tax burden is 20% of your earnings then that means you work for the government one day a week and you work for yourself the other four. Throw in 10% tithing if you’re into churches that tithe, and now you’re working 3.5 days a week for yourself. At what point do you become a slave?
Congress must enact a bill that does the following (in as few words as possible):
1- Repeal the Administrative Procedure Act (APA); 2 – Dictates that no Rule, Procedure, Regulation, Etc., proposed by the Nomenklatura has the force of law unless it is specifically enacted into law by an Act of Congress; 3 – Repeals the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)!
“…let the parasites die off.”
If only they would. There is a continuum between a well-regulated militia and a police state.
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There is a ton of hidden waste caused by all of these regulations. The primary driver is that mist of them are on a five year review cycle. So every five years they add more fo any given subject of regulation (it is never less).
I have worked in new product development for 30 years. The amount of time spent redesigning perfectly good product to meet some random regulations instead of making new amd better stuff is staggering.
The thing is, the really big companies like all te regulations because it makes it harder for new companies to enter the market amd they generally have enough pull to stop any new regulations that would be too onerous even for them.
I have been involved in redesigning many products to meet new regulations (usually environment or safety) amd exactly none of those changes made the consumers or environment or anything else better. It is all a scam.