 President is convinced to rein in the Patent Office!
Another example of tyranny is the IRS bullying of Conservative non profit organizations. Makes one wonder if the executive branch permitted or condoned this show of force?
Now we have also seen NSA eavesdropping on American Citizens. Is the government getting into your telephone and doubtlessly into E mail on the Web? How many times does the NSA or Homeland Security obtain warrants to break down your front door in order to obtain information from your computer?
The mother of all agencies when it comes to regulation is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). EPA cranks out regulations by the ream. In 2013 the federal register grew by some 80,000 pages and the biggest contributor to this growth was EPA, many of these regulations border on the absurd. Many regulations will greatly increase the cost of fuels, electricity and many other things we utilize on a daily basis. The EPA has put many restrictions on the coal industry which supplies coal for electrical power generation. The results of these restrictions is that many of our generating plants and coal mines will be forced to shut down making electrical power more expensive and putting many more people on the unemployment roles.
In all of these acts of bureaucratic tyranny a trail seems to lead back to the Oval Office. Indeed one might assume the bureaucrats in question are really not entirely on their own. Of course when it comes to the executive branch they will emphatically deny any guilt regarding bureaucratic overreach. Indeed if President Obama admitted ordering any actions of this type then he would be guilty of abusing his power which is an impeachable offense. If individuals in these agencies are acting on their own volition, we then have a self regulating bureaucracy running wild with tons of authority and unlimited power and no accountability.
To make matters even worse people who run these agencies tend to stay in their positions for 30 or more years. These people are neither elected nor are they put in office via consent and advice from the Senate.
They are generally nameless and faceless power hungry people who are interested in self perpetuation and their own agendas. In a way we, as an electorate here in California, are falling down on the job. We have many Congress people who have been entrenched in Washington D.C. for twenty, thirty and forty years.
Yes something must be done about the Agency Bureaucrats but we do have the voting power to remove our entrenched representatives.
The author is a Vacaville resident.