I haven’t posted much lately because I’ve been just super busy, which I guess is good. I have been writing – a lot – on my new book, Backlash 2: Justice Denied. I believe I’ll be finished with it soon, although it’s taking longer than I’d hoped.
Since I more often than not blog about politics and there’s been a lot going on, I’m going to just pick one thing that I’m happy about. I’m determined to focus on things that make me happy because there’s plenty to focus on that will make you unhappy. At least half the country is very unhappy with the outcome of the election.
I’m not one of them, but there’s still a lot that could get me down if I let it. So here’s the one thing I picked to be happy about:
One of President Trump’s directives to all Federal agencies was, if you are contemplating creating a new regulation, you must retract (repeal? delete?) two old regulations.
I LOVE this! In fact, I have often said if I was president, that was something I would do. I know, I can’t prove that I said that, but I did.
Some Debbie-downers will say, “So, you don’t want ANY regulation?!” to which I say “Seriously? Is that what I said?”
No, that’s not what I said and that’s not what President Trump is saying. To say if you want to reduce the regulatory burden on the American people is to say you want NO regulation is like, if I say “Overeating is bad” and the response is “So you want people to STARVE?!”
It’s really simple. If you keep adding regulations every year for scores or even hundreds of years, soon you’ve got too many regulations. Regulations that conflict with other regulations or even contradict other regulations, regulations that are outdated, regulations that have been superseded, etc. Just like sometimes you have to clean out your closet, sometimes you need to tidy up the government.
Wanting a small government doesn’t mean you want NO government; it means you want a lean government that does what it’s supposed to do well and doesn’t muck around where it doesn’t belong.
More government, less freedom; less government, more freedom. It’s really as simple as that.
