Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Why didn't he start with this?
Perry is finally getting down to business with some serious ideas, but it's probably too late for him:
Amen on the uproot and tear down. We are completely tangled in an impenetrable jungle of legislature-made laws, executive-made regulations, lawyer-made lawsuits, and bureaucratic intransigence.
Everything we do, including breathing, is either illegal or sue-able. Everything the ruling class does (ie infinite theft and mass murder) is legal by definition and un-sue-able by definition. Except, of course, when the ruling class encourages "sweetheart suits" as a back-door technique to make new tyrannical rules without bothering with legislation.
However, the only correct term limit for Federal black-robed saboteurs is ZERO SECONDS, not 18 years. Eliminate the entire Fed court system, which is purely suicidal. Maybe establish a new "Interstate Mediation Service", paid equally by all states, to resolve disputes on jurisdiction and water rights. This service would then fulfill the sole purpose that the Constitution SPECIFIED for the Federal courts.
More broadly, we need to dislodge the one-way ratchet mentality that bureaucrats breed. Every problem requires a new agency, every day requires a thousand new regulations. This is not how real people, from engineers to programmers to businessmen to God, solve problems. Most problems are solved by simplification, subtraction and decoupling.
The ratchet effect is most dramatically visible right now in the EU, where the only correct solution is to eliminate the whole organization and return to normal nations. The people of Europe understand the correct solution, but the leaders can only add more agencies, more counterfeit Weimar money, more bailouts, more unification, more tightly-bound iron-handed control. ¶ 4:08 AM
If elected president, Texas Gov. Rick Perry promised "uproot" the federal government Tuesday, unveiling a range of sweeping reforms that include term limits for federal judges and Supreme Court justices, a part-time Congress, and laws criminalizing insider trading among legislators.
Quoting from the Bible, Perry said in his speech to workers at the Schebler Manufacturing Facility, "There is a time to plant and a time to uproot, there is a time to tear down and there is a time to build."
Amen on the uproot and tear down. We are completely tangled in an impenetrable jungle of legislature-made laws, executive-made regulations, lawyer-made lawsuits, and bureaucratic intransigence.
Everything we do, including breathing, is either illegal or sue-able. Everything the ruling class does (ie infinite theft and mass murder) is legal by definition and un-sue-able by definition. Except, of course, when the ruling class encourages "sweetheart suits" as a back-door technique to make new tyrannical rules without bothering with legislation.
However, the only correct term limit for Federal black-robed saboteurs is ZERO SECONDS, not 18 years. Eliminate the entire Fed court system, which is purely suicidal. Maybe establish a new "Interstate Mediation Service", paid equally by all states, to resolve disputes on jurisdiction and water rights. This service would then fulfill the sole purpose that the Constitution SPECIFIED for the Federal courts.
More broadly, we need to dislodge the one-way ratchet mentality that bureaucrats breed. Every problem requires a new agency, every day requires a thousand new regulations. This is not how real people, from engineers to programmers to businessmen to God, solve problems. Most problems are solved by simplification, subtraction and decoupling.
The ratchet effect is most dramatically visible right now in the EU, where the only correct solution is to eliminate the whole organization and return to normal nations. The people of Europe understand the correct solution, but the leaders can only add more agencies, more counterfeit Weimar money, more bailouts, more unification, more tightly-bound iron-handed control. ¶ 4:08 AM
