REGULATION | 2007-08-14
You seemed to enjoy my lawyer qoutes, and they had a PURPOSE. I want you to REALIZE just how dumb professionals ARE,once they have their credentials to keep from being judged on making sense.
I helped make a lot of laws, rules and regulations. In one case, we were discussing some adjustment of labor law for the Reagan program -- I was still on Capitol Hill then. They were quoting Administration policy, which said, "Regulations should be limited to the number one has the resources and power to keep track of and enforce."
To me, this was like saying, "You have the freedom to do anything that does not injure others." Like so much Wisdom, it sounds profound but is actually meaningless. Every tyranny in history said the same thing: if you dispute Communism, you are hurting others, if you discourage people in the True Faith, said the Inqusition and the Puritans, you are sending people to Hell.
No one EVER said you should have regulations you can't enforce. But in early 1981 this was Ultimate Wisdom from the New Administratin, Holy Writ, so only one persn sitting there would do anything but ooh ad ahh over its profundity.
My comment was, "You say that 'Regulations should be limited to the number one has the resources and power to keep track of and enforce.' May I pont out that God Almighty is STILL trying to enforce TEN?"