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Originally Posted by Nebe
You think we should have no regulating agencies?!?! BwaaaaAhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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So, does "BwaaaaAhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!" summarize your understanding of federal regulatory agencies?
Congress
IS a regulatory agency! Regulations are forms of law. In our once Constitutional system of government, the people had, and WERE MEANT to have a say in the laws which they would have to obey. They elected representatives who would pass the laws they wanted passed. It was meant that the representatives they ELECTED would create law--it was not intended, by our once constitutional system of government that law would be created by UNELECTED bureaucrats, so-called "experts," to decide, without the people's consent, the laws that the people would have to obey.
Little by little, by deception and so-called crises, our so-called representatives created, first a couple, then a few, then more and more, and eventually hundreds of agencies which were unlawfully (unconstitutionally) given executive, legislative, and judicial powers--little fiefdoms not accountable to the people--to regulate and tax our behavior in accordance to the now 80,000 pages of regulations they pump out every year ON TOP Of the multi-thousands of pages already on record. Do you read all the new regulations that are created every year? Are you aware of every detail which may affect you, or will you only know about them if you inadvertently break a rule, are caught, and are fined?
And the once revered concept of Separation of Powers is totally demolished in this system of agencies which combine in each regulatory agency those powers which were intended to be separated into our different branches of government--that trio, legislative, executive, and judicial. That is, by definition, a governmental form of tyranny.
It may be debatable if some regulatory agencies are necessary, or even good. But if they are, they shouldn't have the plenary power they now have. And the sheer mass of regulations vomited out by federal agencies should not happen. Many of the regulations do more harm than good. Many are ridiculous. Many, if not most, are politically inspired, agenda driven. And most of them are not government by the people.
And the federal government's myriad of agencies which increasingly affect every aspect of our lives is not only tyrannical because they are unelected and cancel separation of powers, but even more so because the scope of their intrusion breaches the delineation outlined by the Constitution's list of enumerated powers given to the Federal Government. The Federal Government and its "agencies" assume, in all matters, superiority over state and local governments, and even over the people, in deciding what needs to be done and how. Never mind that the Federal Government and its agencies are comprised of "people" such as we and no more so than our local governments. And that state and local governments have "experts," and there are more "experts" among us as individuals at large then there are in the Federal Government and its agencies.
Nor are the politicians and their bureaucrats more honest, capable, and agenda free than state and local governments, nor more so than We the People.
If we cannot avoid stupidity and corruption in politics and "regulation," better that they should be dispersed into the numerous state and local governments and all of their diverse citizens than that they should be empowered in a central government which dictates to all and by such empowerment the ability to cause more widespread, universal harm and destruction.
Congress is a regulatory agency, and as such should burden itself with passing federal regulations rather than ceding that power and responsibility to unelected agencies.
State and local governments are regulatory agencies. They should be allowed to regulate that which the Constitution does not allow the Federal Government to regulate.
And We the People, as groups, factions, and individuals, are regulatory agencies of the first order. We should be allowed to self regulate the vast residuum of rights and behaviors that the Constitution does not enumerate as federal powers to do so.
One of the reasons for Separation from England, for the Declaration of Independence, and for the Constitution . . . for the founding of this nation . . . is listed as a complaint against the King: "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance." That condition has resurfaced and exponentially grown by the creation of our hundreds of federal regulatory agencies.
Of course, if "BwaaaaAhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!" is the extent of your knowledge regarding regulatory agencies . . . well, . . . they say ignorance is bliss.