Henry Payne for October 04, 2013

I’m sure The O will still read our emails.

I knew there had to be a positive side to the “shutdown.” How I would love to see the regulatory agencies shrink… I was talking to another friend that is a retired accountant and we were discussing a program to audit these various agencies and programs for duplicity, waste, fraud etc. I won’t bore you with the technical details but we figured we could conduct a 24 month intensive audit and the savings to be had would likely balance our budget.

The assumption I make is from studies done by various committees of congress, the CBO,the agencies themselves, almost always finding literally billions of dollars that could be saved. Why hasn’t this been implemented? Thank you local house representative or senator, lobbyists and special interest groups who scream bloody murder when someone tries to suggest budget cuts that would affect their constituents.

The Respectful Troll and I have discussed this on numerous occasions, posted on these boards accordingly, and come up with the same conclusion: as long as our elected representatives are only focused on their own benefit we will suffer. In our nations history we have almost always been able to negotiate and compromise for the best interests of our people.

Enough on my soap box. I am going to change the language on my emails & phone calls to my representatives: sit down together, negotiate and compromise.

Thanks for letting me share and have a nice weekend.

There’s a better way. Maybe the next President can just executive order those agencies to remove 10% of their current regulations by page count or see 10% of their budget returned to the treasury for not complying.That will be a good start on getting rid of the duplicate, wasteful, fraudlent, obsolete, and useless regulations they have now.

You’re such a clown Payne. No matter how absurd the behavior of the far right, you find some way to instead skewer the country’s elected president, his cabinet, or anyone else that doesn’t support your extreme views. No wonder you have such a tiny following.