Let’s clear this up. We hire college law students fresh out of college to work in the state and federal bureaucracy as regulators. To attract this talent, we offer to pay some of the tuition loan costs. We intentionally hire these so-called ‘hard workers’ because it is difficult to keep current regulators when those regulatory employees are always offered jobs from large corporations with much higher salaries and good benefits. These young employees are outmatched by their former managers within the bureaucracy, who definitely know the ropes and are now working on the other side (the revolving door problem is alive and well in our regulatory bureaucracies).
Most of these law students come to their regulatory jobs after being brainwashed that corporations are bad, that the top 1% are bad, that capitalism is bad, and that they can fix the world by regulating the enemy. That’s the big problem I see with our regulatory bureaucracy, and as a former franchisor of a national company, I was able to see this nonsense firsthand – it was disgusting. Often times when regulators didn’t have a case, they would research and investigate until they could create one and were so proud of themselves for doing it.
Manufacturing (dot) net had an interesting article titled; Kathleen Ronayne of the Associated Press, Kathleen Ronayne of the Associated Press, goes ahead asking states to track vehicle emissions on federal highways, after months of delays, California and 7 other states sued the state. DOT to track greenhouse gas emissions on highways by looking at purchased gas and miles traveled on federal highways. States must set emissions targets. Car and truck emissions are 27% of total greenhouse emissions.
No, I don’t just rely on what I read to form my opinions or cloud my observations, you see, I have personally experienced bureaucracy countless times in my business career. What prompted me to write this article was that I was cleaning up some old papers from one of my businesses, old things that are no longer relevant. The volume of paperwork was baffling, the amount of time that passed before was unfathomable. Sometimes when you’re in the middle of it all, you don’t realize it, but now, looking back, oh my! Think of all those hours and dollars spent, money and time, that I should have been using to expand my business.
Of course, I know that nobody in the regulatory bureaucracy cares, after all, they don’t even believe in capitalism, the free market, or my right to free contract. It is amazing that our population is so naive as to think that we need more regulations on business and yet they complain about prices, jobs, economic taxes or their slow investments.
