Stroke of the pen, results are gone. This unchecked political power and influence peddling that surround the regulatory pen are dangerous. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has halted the construction of a school and hospital in San Bernardino county because 8 New Delhi Sands flies, the only fly on the endangered species list, were found near the construction site. Environmentalists and regulators have moved from ranchers, loggers, goshawks and spotted owls to city slickers and flies. The sheer brute force of the mighty regulatory pen is a formidable opponent for democracy.
Regulations are at once oppressive and ineffectual.
A spaghetti bowl of federal edicts ineffectual in silliness and overpowering in detail chokes daily life. For example, every food item now has that goofy nutrition label with the various food pyramid grams. Goshen, apples have fiber. Since the implementation of this nutritional information edict, intended to bring full disclosure to a tubby public, the nation's girth has grown. Stroke of the pen, poundage up.