Obama Added $9.5 Billion in New Regulations in Last Month
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 6:27 PM
Worst. President. Ever.
With unemployment at 9.2%, the Obama Administration added over $9.5 billion in new regulations in one month.
Heritage Action reported, via American Thinker:
While Congress was focused on increasing the debt limit and giving Americans the impression that they were actually working towards reducing our debt (which didn’t happen), President Obama and his administration quietly piled on $9.5 billion worth of regulations to job creators…in just one month!
“While Washington and Americans have been focused on the debt ceiling, the Obama administration has continued to roll our more crushing red tape,” a spokesperson for Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) said.
The new regulatory costs include 229 new rules and the finalization of an additional 379 rules, the majority of which came from (no surprise) the EPA, the new healthcare takeover law, and the Dodd-Frank financial takeover law.
So as President Obama and his liberal allies complained that enough wasn’t being done to stimulate job growth during the debt debate, we find out that they were actually working to make it even harder to create jobs. The President has also indicated – for the Nth time – that he will now “pivot” towards creating jobs.
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ken commented:
Nice. I was feeling a little under regulated.
Patty commented:
Obama has fallen off the wagon. Goofy and the exact reason Big Business is floating on the water…going no where but overseas or downgrading. There is that word DOWNGRADED America.
We need regulations but Obama has gone off the bend. This is one of the reasons we are failing economically.
fightinggranny commented:
Glad to see that Sunstein is continuing to do an overwhelmingly odious job.
MrGoodWench commented:
The President has also indicated – for the Nth time – that he will now “pivot” towards creating jobs.
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but first…paartay …paartay…woooohoooo
Wm T Sherman commented:
“Pivot.” No, that was a divot.
Gimme a Break, I'm just a Hobbit commented:
The U.S. economy isn’t completely destroyed yet, but not to worry. Obutthead has 17 months to finish the job.
StrangernFiction commented:
The Land of the Decree and the Home of the Slave
Tjexcite commented:
Rule by regulations. So even when they lose the regulations are so in trenched and no one knows which law they are part of and can never remove them.
Kris commented:
How much longer is this BS going to go on? Anyone who is halfway conscious knows it’s not an inept president making mistakes, it’s a movement taking down the USA. If Eric Holder is the one responsible for indicting Obama for corruption, treason or whatever, we’re really hosed. Where’s Joe McCarthey when you need him? We NEED an investigation into unAmerican activities!!!
tommy mc donnell commented:
and not one democrat in congress will say a word about it. the loyality of the democrats to the party would have been the envy of the old soviet union.
atxcowgirl commented:
But don’t worry. They are getting rid of old and duplicate regulations that will save businesses $10B over 5 yrs!
martha commented:
How many times did Beck say that this president wants you to watch his right hand, while not seeing what the left hand is doing?
Beck has been right about alot of things-anyone else remember “The Coming Insurrection”?=Flash mobs+London riots
BS-meter commented:
It’s deja vu all over again. Once the Bamster gets down to work he’s gonna turn this thing around 360 degrees.
Just you watch!
Redwine commented:
It’s the Cloward-Piven strategy. That’s all you need to know what the regime is up to.
The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward (1926-2001) and Frances Fox Piven (b. 1932) that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of “a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty”.
IOW – Overwhelm and collapse the system. Use the ensuing chaos and riots to “herd” people into a cradle-to-grave, totalitarian nightmare.
Welcome to the gulag.
chewydog commented:
Or the economy in general
Molon Labe commented:
The GOP should pass a law limiting the agencies that can regulate and leave these functions to the states. Why do we need the Federal government regulating toilets, light bulbs and sugar content in soda?
big L commented:
get rid of the regulators and staff.
Also not term limits, but congress meeting limits. Set it at about 120 days per year, maybe less. That is it and then the Congressers have to go back home and live with family in the STATES. They have to have a job or career. No moe pampered princes of politics. They can pay for own gym, postage and apt. Less time in D.C, the less mischief. Also less staff too. If they want to pay them, hire a 100. Otherwise if we, the People pay, they get a secy/receptionist and an aide. Anyone that works as a staffer has entire
CV placed on line back to 3 jobs. No more goof-ball bill-writers from Lobbyists unless we KNOW who they are.
The perhaps a 10 day clean-up session at the end of the year…That is it.
arnonerik commented:
Obama and his minions will bring us down if they can. If we wait to do this in 2012 our economy will be bled and gutted. Somebody smarter than I needs to come up with a plan to curtail the Progressive ( read Communist) bureaucrats Obama has placed throughout the government agencies. He can go Golfing while they do his dirty work and most people are not even aware of the extent of what is happening.
Larkin commented:
I’d like to see a detailed of each and every bureaucratic job (and it’s extravagant salary) that o has added to the federal workforce in just two and a half years.
Rick Perry…Mitt Romney…SOMEBODY on our side… This is solid, silver bullet ammo that will stop obama in his tracks.