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Obama’s Regulatory Binge

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Making a pitch for Democratic candidates in 2014, President Obama told big donors in California Thursday night that Democrats favor free-market solutions and less government regulation.

“It turns out we’re pretty common-sense folks,” Mr. Obama said at a fundraiser at a private home in Palo Alto, Calif. “We believe in the free market [and] a light touch when it comes to regulations.”

This, like pretty much everything else that comes out of his pie-hole, was a big fat lie.

President Barack Obama’s last year in office set a high watermark for new federal rules and regulations as the outgoing Democrat sought to leave his mark on the country through a “pen and phone” strategy.

The total number of Federal Register pages in 2016 rose nearly 20 percent to 95,894, the most ever, and the number of final rules, at 3,853, was the most since 2005, according to a new report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

The Democrats once claimed not to be socialists (they claim that much less these days). They made this claim on the thin reed that since the state had not officially taken over all industry, they weren’t really practicing socialism.

But if the Government is micromanaging via regulation every decision a business can make… hiring, firing, location of capital assets, the form and specification of products … then what is the difference, really?

Sadly, the Republican half of the Washington Uniparty has shown only the most modest inclination to rein in these regulatory abuses.

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  2. It used to be that there was a clear line drawn between the two parties on this issue: Dem’s =’d bigger government & more spending; Repub’s =’d smaller government and less spending. It’s hard to see or believe which is which anymore, in my view.

  5. Juan is right. Conservatives accuse liberals of wanting “socialism,” but what the Democrats really want is fascism. Private ownership, but total government control.

    That way, the Democratic Party gets to have it both ways. The government tells your insurance company to provide drug rehab coverage for you, even though you are not a drug addict.

    And, the government requires maternity insurance for everyone, including gay people, post-menopausal women, young women who have had tubal ligation, and young men who have had vasectomies.

    Then, when your rates go up, you blame the greedy insurance company instead of blaming the micro-managing government bureaucrats.

  7. Today’s Progressive Party has many faces. If communism is needed, fine. If fascism is required, also fine. Democrats move seamlessly between any of the socialist ideologies.

    The end result is totalitarianism.

  8. It’s been asserted previously that Obama knew what he was doing, in his instances of circumvention of the US Constitution. Being a scholar without repute at Harvard, etc. I’ve always agreed with this obvious-ness.

    There’s no way the actual thinkers & strategists on the Left cannot know that their ideology &/or political platform is indefensible by any measure, in any fair argument where their opponent has more than two braincells. These giants of intellect have to be able the encompass reality in order to craft their course through reality to achieve their agenda, hoping no one will notice that their entire universe of thought is based on lies & is a lie. This is all absolute, whether their civilians understand it or not. They don’t mind & often promote experimentation when our system is needs no experimentation.

    My question is, are they jealous? These people can’t exist 24/7 as the strategists, liars in chief, snowflakes hoping for a safe place & non-voting 20 something boy with beards & hairy armpit goils. In their private moments when all is calm, are they jealous?

  9. @Hanover- ” In their private moments when all is calm, are they jealous?”
    Yes indeed. In turn, this jealousy nurtures a deep and abiding hatred, hence the absolute hysteria.

  10. But if the Government is micromanaging via regulation every decision a business can make… hiring, firing, location of capital assets, the form and specification of products … then what is the difference, really?”

    A textbook definition of national socialism and corporatist fascism. All part of the entrenched Deep State. The only blessing is their intellectual incompetence prevents them from truly utilizing the omniscient surveillance to it’s true potential.

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  12. “In their private moments when all is calm, are they jealous?”

    Not jealous but envy. Jealousy can inspire someone to work harder to buy a TV as big as yours, envy makes him want to destroy yours.