Ramblings of a Prophet

In this modern world many people believe that our government is corrupt, unfair, or sluggish.  I concur, with the addition of, it tries, but there is so much “fat”, or unnecessary crap.  The subject of many jokes center around our governments inability to respond to anything in a timely manner.  This is true, but there has to many laws that have been voted in, that were good in theory, but in reality hurt the US more than helped.  For example, a law was proposed in California would have this special chemical added to gas that would supposedly help reduce the hydrocarbons released into the air.  sounds good right, but as it turned out, after it became a law, it was discovered that the additives didn’t have any affect.  So I’m not sure if this law is still in effect, i believe it is, but its laws like this that muck up the system.  Another law that recently passed in the Congress was regarding a simple matter, it ended up being 700 pages, and someone had tacked on a small law that significantly benefited a certain group.  Also the paperwork for bankruptcy is sent, in full, to every person who owes that company money, even if its only one thing.  The bankruptcy paperwork can be over 1000 pages for just a small business, imagine that getting sent to 500 people, one reem of paper, to 500 people.

I don’t know how you feel about this, but this is outrageous to me, so what should we do about this you say?  My idea, the Bureau of Logic, a government agency dedicated to injecting common sense and logic into the government.  They would not be allowed to receive “gifts” or “bonuses” from any group for any reason, a fixed salary.  They would be spread around in every city, and have different specialties, some would be engineers, some would be financial experts, and so on.  The point of having different specialties would be so that a desk jockey or pencil pusher wouldn’t be telling a high-rise engineer how to lay out the floors or a car designer how to place the fire extinguisher.  Another requirement is that they have some practical, real world experience, like a 30 year veteran car mechanic Will have a practice, down to earth way of fixing something, whereas a mechanic will have the superior method, but it will cost many more man hours and much more expensive.  I’m sure every one of you know how that is, someone who has no practical knowledge of how something is done telling you how to build something without breaking the bank.

There are too many building codes to even comprehend, but there is one, regarding emergency doors that could use some common sense.  The code requires there be a door every X feet, which is a good idea, but one building in my area, due to its size, ended up with 2 exit doors at one corner of the building, 2 feet apart, no divided, exactly same outside, but the building code required it.  In this case a BOL inspector would say “OK, so there is one there, we don’t need another”, and possibly save the construction some money.

Another just random rant/idea is I believe that all laws proposed should have a maximum page limit, perhaps 2-4 pages, I mean hell, the Constitution was less than 10 pages, and it set up an entire government, laws now days are just ridiculous.

I would like to know what you think about this, so please, if you agree, disagree, think im full of it, or whatever, throw up a comment.