In an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Mr. Bush said that each agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents providing guidance to regulated industries.
yes this smacks of the soviet union...and look who else has done this shit before...
puffalufagus wrote:
we should be rioting in the streets...no?
go for it.
and i'll bet you still hold on to the fantasy that bush will be impeached.
No one with a brain is holding out any hope that that will happen. The Dems have pretty much said as much, basically hey don't want to shoot their wad before the '08 elections (when Billary fucks everything up and puts another Republican in the White House. )
"What they're doing is even worse than Carnivore," said Kevin Bankston, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who attended the Stanford event. "What they're doing is intercepting everyone and then choosing their targets."
In theory, guidance documents do not have the force of law. But the White House said the documents needed closer scrutiny because they “can have coercive effects” and “can impose significant costs” on the public. Many guidance documents are made available to regulated industries but not to the public.
Paul R. Noe, who worked on regulatory policy at the White House from 2001 to 2006, said such aberrations would soon end. “In the past, guidance documents were often issued in the dark,” Mr. Noe said. “The executive order will ensure they are issued in the sunshine, with more opportunity for public comment.”
Under the new White House policy, any guidance document expected to have an economic effect of $100 million a year or more must be posted on the Internet, and agencies must invite public comment, except in emergencies in which the White House grants an exemption.
I kinda like this particular idea about public access to the guidance documents, but from what I was able to glean, the new order is much more than simply making guidance documents transparent, right?
the funny part, had everyone adopted the splish philosophy centuries ago, splish would today be a peon or serf toiling in his lord's fields in exchange for the right to eat turnips. it's only thanks to the people who actually did something that he has the leisure time to admire himself in the mirror like a gayboy and post crap on an internet message board
seremtan wrote:the funny part, had everyone adopted the splish philosophy centuries ago, splish would today be a peon or serf toiling in his lord's fields in exchange for the right to eat turnips. it's only thanks to the people who actually did something that he has the leisure time to admire himself in the mirror like a gayboy and post crap on an internet message board
How is plowing a field much different from a data entry job for example? You're no more free than those serfs, maybe even less.
Whatever comforts you and I enjoy were given to us mostly by advances in technology.
Furthermore, farmers during the french revolution for example had absolutely no way to get rich and were about to starve, so the revolution was pretty much "their business" and their way to "get rich".
seremtan wrote:the funny part, had everyone adopted the splish philosophy centuries ago, splish would today be a peon or serf toiling in his lord's fields in exchange for the right to eat turnips. it's only thanks to the people who actually did something that he has the leisure time to admire himself in the mirror like a gayboy and post crap on an internet message board
How is plowing a field much different from a data entry job for example? You're no more free than those serfs, maybe even less.
Whatever comforts you and I enjoy were given to us mostly by advances in technology.
Furthermore, farmers during the french revolution for example had absolutely no way to get rich and were about to starve, so the revolution was pretty much "their business" and their way to "get rich".
you're on a hiding to nothing here. just give it up
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