Yes, I applaud President Obama for his op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on how he is going to reduce overburdening regulation on business.
And yet, I don't really think he gets it.
Part of the reason of course, is the fact that he's never run a business or had to deal with all the nonsense, paperwork, and insanity of it all.
Nor has he worked in a government regulatory agency to see how such bureaucracies work.
Let me tell, from what I've seen - it's scary.
Indeed, there was a very interesting article in the Washington Examiner recently in the "opinion zone" section titled; "Obama's Regulation Pledge Does Not Pass the Laugh Test" by Iain Murray.
The author of this editorial, and really you should read it, explains that the Obama Administration and President Obama in particular is making hollow promises when it comes to reducing the over-bearing regulations which are crippling our economic recovery.
The author of that article talks about Barack Obama's ideas of slight de-regulation of various regulatory agencies, but the real problem is that we almost have to start over.
Regulatory reform at this point, well, it's never going to happen, and it is not that I am any sort of pessimist, not in the slightest, it's just I realize there is a type of culture that runs deep in these agencies, and a lot of misconception that the businesses are evil, and go out of their way to cheat or dodge the rules.
Worse, when business owners try to get around the rules, it's not that they want to cheat, lie, steal, or pollute, it's rather that they understand how the rotten system works.
You see, regulatory rules are there to help the people, consumers, taxpayers, or little old ladies cross the street, no, most were created by one business (with lobbyists, lawyers, and friends in high places) to get a leg up on the competition.
When industry associations, big labor, giant corporations mix and mingle with politicians who are filling up their political war chest with campaign dollars - they essentially end up writing the rules.
They help make rules that are good for them, and hard on their competition.
Then the overzealous junior regulators who want to get promoted, and want justice think that they are doing society a favor by stopping the greedy businessman from breaking the rules.
These junior regulators are nothing more than pawns in a much bigger war.
And about the time they figure that out, they will be hired away and pass through that revolving door and go work for the very corporations who are either the rule makers, or rule breakers, that is if they don't get a job with a big law firm which has those sorts of corporations as clients.
The whole thing is a giant lie, it's a façade, it's a racket, and it's just a silly stupid game in my opinion.
What bothers me the most in all of this is that we've stifled free-enterprise, we are killing our small businesses, we are forcing companies to outsource and offshore, while our Teleprompter in Chief (my opinion) tells us that he's going to reduce regulations, help America innovate, and double our trade output to foreign nations.
Seriously, the best way he could do that is to resign tomorrow and find someone like me who we take the bull by the horns and slam it to the ground.
We cannot get jobs back until we stop killing small businesses.
We cannot fix the trade deficit until we stop crucifying entrepreneurs, stop playing this silly class warfare, and stop over regulating our industrial capacity.
Why is it that no one gets it? Why are they so corrupt, they just don't care? And why on Earth are we allowing this to continue, and slowly destroy the greatest nation ever created in the history of mankind? Answer those questions for me.