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Category Archives: Regulation
California Moonbats Come After Bacon
If it is worth having, liberals will take it away from us. This includes even bacon. To see the future under moonbat rule, look to California:
At the beginning of next year, California will begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 that requires more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves. National veal and egg producers are optimistic they can meet the new standards, but only 4% of hog operations now comply with the new rules. Unless the courts intervene or the state temporarily allows non-compliant meat to be sold in the state, California will lose almost all of its pork supply, much of which comes from Iowa, and pork producers will face higher costs to regain a key market.
This could mean many restaurants that somehow survived the tyrannical Covid lockdowns will be put out of business by restrictions on what food is considered politically correct. Who wants to go to a diner for bacon and eggs when bacon has been forbidden?
Due to its massive population, California is often able to boss the rest of the country around. This time, other states will find it hard to comply:
With little time left to build new facilities, inseminate sows and process the offspring by January, it’s hard to see how the pork industry can adequately supply California, which consumes roughly 15% of all pork produced in the country.
In the end, the country may bow to California’s will:
Eventually, California’s new rules could become a national standard because processors can’t afford to ignore the market in such a large state.
Food prices in general are going up due to the inflation caused by Democrats’ irresponsible spending. If bacon goes up even faster, thank the erstwhile Golden State.
In Iowa, which raises about one-third of the nation’s hogs, farmer Dwight Mogler estimates the changes would cost him $3 million and allow room for 250 pigs in a space that now holds 300.
Some farmers will go out of business; others will be forced to charge more for the food they supply. All so that California moonbats can sanctimoniously lord it over the rest of us.
Too much regulation is never enough to suit progressives. If they can inflict this, they will inflict worse:
“The question to us is, if we do these changes, what is the next change going to be in the rules two years, three years, five years ahead?” Mogler asked.
Will we wait until Democrats ban bacon before we start pushing back? What will they ban next after that?
On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.
Biden Regime Tightens Regulations on Taking a Shower
Democrats’ petty tyrant regulations follow you everywhere — even into the shower:
Biden is ditching showerhead rules put in place by former President Donald Trump that allowed more water to flow out of a shower per minute. …
Biden is also attempting to eliminate the definition of “body spray” Trump adopted, which was described as a “shower device for spraying onto a bather other than from the overhead position.” Trump argued a “body spray” should not fall under the umbrella of a showerhead, hence, it should not be subject to the 2.5 gallon limit.
The Tenth Amendment specifies that the powers not explicitly delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states or to the people. But I can’t find the part in the Constitution where it delegates to Biden’s handlers the power to dictate whether we can have a some water pressure with our showers.
Most infuriating is how they pretend their dictates are for our own good. The Department of Energy says we will save money if we use less water. If people wanted to save money by using less water, the free market would eagerly supply shower nozzles with reduced water flow.
The main point is the same as with literally everything Democrats do: to increase power over us so that even the most trivial aspects of existence conform to their coercive will.
On a tip from Chuck A.
Don’t Ask Permission
If it were up to bureaucrats, nothing would ever change, except that government would grow ever larger, devouring ever more of our wealth and freedom. Already the US government is so obscenely hypertrophied that progress only occurs when it is evaded or opposed. To get anywhere requires defying the authorities.
A few people like Elon Musk are still able to get away with this. Others merely get crushed by the Leviathan.
Unless we reverse course, government will grow so massive that nothing will happen anywhere without permission in advance from our bureaucratic overlords. At that point, we will have nothing to look forward to but tyranny and atrophy.
On a tip from KirklesWorth.
Regulation Overload Smothers America’s Potential
This isn’t the same country that built the Empire State Building in 15 months. Technologically, we are far ahead of where we were when the classic skyscraper opened in 1931. Culturally, we have decayed to the point that we no longer have the will to prevent petty tyrants from binding us head to foot in red tape.
John Stossel and Peter Thiel lament the wasted potential:
It isn’t possible to build high or travel fast with Big Government’s foot on your face.
The ChiCom virus vaccines came out as fast as they did largely because Operation Warp Speed reduced regulatory hurdles. What are the odds of that happening under the Biden’s Handlers Administration?
On a tip from KirklesWorth.