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One more set of data to support ; "Figures can lie and liars can figure" As well as being another demonstration of why the size of the federal government badly needs to be cut back.

The defining word is Fascism. That's where the favored few private business owners benefit at the expense of everybody else when the government says "you will"..........fill in the blank..

California will learn a bitter lesson when the first firestorm driven by the recurring Santa Ana winds burns through one of these complexes. Instead of 20 or more families being left homeless you will now have hundreds of families made destitute at one time. You don't have to search very far in the archives to find multiple records of wind driven brush fires getting into suburban neighborhoods and destroying 20 or more single family homes. Homes built with enough separation to meet the national fire codes but not enough when you have blast furnace winds feeding 50 foot high walls of flames and sparks. Malthus always wins.

The term "Dutch Tulip Bubble" comes to mind while reading about all of this nonsense. It only takes a small change of law to reduce the whole patent-claim-counterclaim-lawsuit tangle to what the Brits refer to as "a game of silly buggers".

The only effective "solution" to this "problem" is the comprehensive requirement for blind trusts. In order for this "solution" to be effective it would require all members of the Congress, all their staff members, all of the federal level bureaucrats, all of the contracted consultant ~and all of their family members, including parents and siblings and their families~ to be forced into such a program. This would be a regulatory nightmare all by itself. IMHO the cure is worse than the disease. Lets just vote ALL the bastiches out

Perhaps we should require the sort of environmental impact report on any new or modified EPA regulations that are required of private industry. If the EPA had to pass the rigorous reporting and evaluation standards that the rest of us deal with, including the economic impacts, they wouldn't have any resources left for these new flights of fancy.

And in this whole discussion the Fox, in the person of George Soros, still absconds with the fawn, the American Economy and the savings of the American People.

I would propose that the entire licensing system needs to be done through the automobile insurance system. You are required to carry a minimum amount of insurance [though there are a lot of people out there who don't], the insurance company is in a better position to judge your fitness to operate a motor vehicle than the state. Those who can not provide proof of insurance on demand should be subject to arrest and confiscation of any motor vehicle under their control, for the general public welfare, as these individuals are not capable of demonstrating that they are not a public hazard or have the ability to make good on any losses or injury they cause others.