Yes indeed. Way too many regulations these days. We need to return to the good old days, especially for environmental regulations. In the good old days GE could dump huge amounts of PCB's into the Hudson River so that today we must spend billions to dredge it out. If you like poisoned water, no fish and dead wildlife you should really love the good old days when regulations were few.
YES!!! You're damn right! Especially environmental regulations. The EPA is WAY out of control and over reaching.
My neighbor who is a farmer, started to build a pond in his cow pasture. The EPA showed up and told him to cease and desist because there might be an endangered frog living in that area. Though he did have the option of allowing a college to come in and study the area for potential approval.
I bought a run down drug house in my neighborhood so I could tear it down and clean the place up. They had no garbage service for years. Just threw it out the windows. No lawn in years. Their sewage just ran out of the basement down a hand dug ditch into a low area. Someone turned me in. I nearly couldn't clean that property up because their feaces created a wetland by definition. Before an inspector could get out there I turned that place upside down with some big equipment. I won that one.
I have a runoff ditch that travels down the side of a dirt road, crosses 100 yard field, travels the side of a hard road about 50 yards, under the road with a pipe and dumps on my property. It is a major headache keeping the runoff silt and garbage from the road out of it. If I don't keep it clean, it'll leach out and create "wetlands". An engineer just told me I shouldn't be doing that because it meets the EPA definition of a "stream". Further defined as a "stream feeding into a clean watershed". I'm still fighting that one.
I'm trying to build a new building on my commercial property to expand my business and, get this, CREATE JOBS. EPA has the project shut down because I need to mitigate the increased flow of rainwater from the 3 acre project. Things such as containment ponds need to be constructed. Then they can make you test the contained water periodically to prove you aren't contaminating the water. Engineer says they want to see islands throughout the parking areas containing green shrubbery and trees. Says they encourage large facilities to plant rooftop gardens to reduce your environmental impact. No kidding! I'm not sure how long I can fight this one.
EPA, OSHA, Department of Labor, County Conservation District, Building Codes Enforcement, County Planning Committee, Town Board all standing in line with a stack of regulations. I'm sure I forgot some in there too. But if I want to stay in my old run down inefficient building with no growth potential..... NO PROBLEM. "We're here to help you". So the OSHA guy explains to me before his citation writing session over electrical wiring violations. I mean damn those electricians that wired the building 60 years ago. Why couldn't they see eventually there would be "some common sense approaches" legislated to protect people from themselves.
I feel I do understand what the founding fathers afforded the second amendmet for. And it surely wasn't for food getting. I've been silent in these gun rights postings because they are well covered with opinions. But now, vicvanb, ya got under my skin, XXXXXXXXXX (edited out).
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