Few of even the most ardent bookworms would try to read one full-length novel per day. With a typical novel running perhaps 300 to 400 pages, it would be too big a task.
But on a given workday, our federal government may publish the equivalent of one novel’s worth of rules and regulations!
Here is how a writer for Vanity Fair magazine described just a day’s worth of activity by our bloated and growing federal government:
“The Federal Register is published every working day and contains the text of new government regulations, presidential decrees, administrative orders, and proposed rules and public notices,” the magazine writer noted.
It comes to about 350 pages of type.
The subjects vary greatly, for examples: importation of Chinese honey, standards for home furnaces, procedures for experimental use of pesticides, announcements concerning awarding new radio and TV licenses, plus hundreds of other items, the writer pointed out.
Who can possibly keep up with all of the areas of life in which our federal government has involved itself – often unconstitutionally?
As Vanity Fair noted, “The reach of government may touch every cranny of national life, but those in the crannies can also reach back and touch the government, seeking favor and preferment.”
Unfortunately, they do more than “seek” favor; they get it – regularly – in the form of everything from federal cash for sidewalk projects to music halls of fame to unconstitutional farm subsidies.
Yet despite the fact that our mammoth federal government is destructively involved in so many areas where it has no business inserting itself, the Obama administration and most Democrats in Congress remain convinced that government just isn’t quite big enough.
There is almost no problem – whether it be joblessness or health care issues – for which they do not believe more government is the solution.
At some point, they should ask themselves these questions: If bigger government were going to solve our nation’s economic and other problems, wouldn’t it have shown more solid progress by now? And since it hasn’t yet managed to solve those problems, despite decades of trying, wouldn’t it make sense to try something else – namely, less government?