In his famous “A Time for Choosing” speech of 1964, Ronald Reagan observed,
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. So governments’ programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.
Caution: Try not to think of that one in the context of the ongoing train wreck that is Obamacare!
I was reminded of Reagan’s observation in a digression on the Environmental Protection Agency in my newsletter this week discussing a change in automobile emissions inspections here:
Federal agencies are like child stars; in a few years’ time they get totally out of control and everyone wishes they would just go away. But with its oversexed regulatory regime about to smash into whatever semblance of a national economic recovery there may be, and now with its mad spending spree to lay the groundwork for an unprecedented power grab if it preemptively vetoes an Alaskan mining project worth billions of dollars and thousands of jobs annually even before the permit applications are filed, the EPA has gone full Miley Cyrus.
