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jim hardy
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SteamKing said:That way lies madness.The problem isn't that Congress legislates too little, it legislates too much. When you get monstrous bills landing on a representative's desk, bills running on for hundreds, if not thousands of pages, it strains credulity that any of this legislation can be comprehended by mere mortals. In addition to what bubbles up out of the Congressional swamp, each year the federal regulatory bureaucracy upchucks 60,000-plus pages of new regulations in the Federal Register.
Except for passing a budget or declaring war, it would be better if Congress just stayed home until needed, rather than fiddling and fundraising and fine tuning.
We don't disagree on the problem , only its solution. You'd reduce the time for congress to make mischief by ~92% (give them only one month a year);
i'd redirect their energies from building new laws to maintaining existing ones, culling the bad apples as in your Lincoln reference.
It's like an unmaintained orchard, isn't it? Choked with weeds and underbrush.In addition to what bubbles up out of the Congressional swamp, each year the federal regulatory bureaucracy upchucks 60,000-plus pages of new regulations in the Federal Register.
In nature periodic brushfires unchoke things; a good horticulturist does it himself.
But then i spent a lifetime in a maintenance organization.
old jim