America's first Independent President and you want him impeached:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...fcd_story.html

WTF are you blathering about? I don't want him impeached. An impeachment would hurt this country even more than he has already done.

No, I don't want him impeached. I want him to stop doing things that make him so impeachable. I want him to stop creating chaos and drama around himself and get to learning the job that he spent the last year pretending to want so much.

Unfortunately, his interview with the NY Times yesterday will not diminish the impression that some have that he's really only in the role to blatantly enrich himself and his family, rather than improve the country.

He also has described himself as a 'counter-puncher', which, coupled with his ego and temperament, doesn't bode well for dealing with the small-scale and large-scale crises that any President of the United States faces, let alone a candidate who ran a divisive campaign.

Bank managers tell me the regulations are excessive as even borrowers with good as opposed to excellent credit have problems getting mortgages, and over the last 8 years often they had to cut back credit to small businesses which had been customers for many years.

My understanding is that the big banks in some cases have even gained market share or become larger- so I am not sure whatever benefits gained may be less than the detriment to the economy and small business. In any case derivatives and lack of control of securitization of mortgages etc due to lack of up to date and enforced capital regulations more of the problem- not cutting back credit to viable businesses. Regulations just gone too far.

Same for regulations in regards to stock market and in a particular crowd-funding. SEC has done everything possible to make it difficult for smaller public companies, and frustrate the the will of Congress on crowd funding.

Add an out of control EPA, and the regulations in total can be rather stifling.

Impeaching Trump will just put the country through more divisive rhetoric and wont benefit the country. If we go by his words and actions seems he will ignore the huge conflict of interest he has, and continue "stirring the pot" with his comments.

It is inevitable it seems as societies 'progress' there are more and more regulations often for good reasons which have intended or otherwise consequences.

I could go through a whole list of things that have happened locally that in the main had good intent but fall into the well we did not mean that to happen category.

There was a bot on PBS this morning about how Trump wants to delete two regulations for every new one. Something I agree on in principle, but also haw difficult it is to do so and also something that is likely to bring unintended consequences.

No idea what the solution is.

One example of good-intentioned regulation gone wrong:

https://mises.org/blog/state-regulat...less-free-meal

I think the requirement for legislators to 'delete two regulations for every new one imposed' was floated as a way to try to suppress the imposition of regulations that are based on winning political 'points' rather than delivering value to the community.

Unfortunately, I think that this will drive the wrong behaviour - you will have people who develop a ridiculous regulation, and then delete two regulations that cause damage to the community down the road. You will also have people that have great ideas for improving their community, but because they don't want to try and arbitrate which regulations are to be deleted, decide to shelve their idea, impeding the improvement of the community.

Inspected in this case means they applied for a license.....

Most food places get one inspection a year and according to a guy I know who was a health inspector it is very hard to get closed down. You really have to try, but as long as you pay the fee....

Actually, the issue was that the 3000 lbs of food that was gathered wasn't inspected (although presumably the meat prior to cooking was inspected by the FDA), so it had to be destroyed - the issue wasn't with the homeless shelter.

Meat has to be USDA inspected to be sold, or in this case presumably given away.

Where it was cooked has to be licensed as well, of it is going to be sold or presumably in this case given away.

I was wondering why they did not sell the stuff as part of the event, could be why.

I know a local fast food place run by a decent fellow who wanted at the end of a shift to donate cooked food to local church to distribute to the poor or homeless, his insurance company when they heard about it threatened to raise his insurance premium 50% so he had to shelve idea.

Some years back while a city employee we had to switch to fire proof rain gear. When everyone employed in the field had turned in their non-fireproof raingear, jackets, hood and pants there was a mountain of them many in excellent condition. It was believed that these would be donated to the homeless but for some reason it wasn't allowed and I never could find out why.


On the other hand empty wooden cable reels could be picked up by anyone who wanted them and had the means to take them away.

Here's another good article that was originally penned in 2009 in Harper's which is by no means a conservative rag. Although the subject is obama it could help explain why Hillary lost:

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/07/barack-hoover-obama/1/

So apparently Trump has been skipping out on the daily intelligence briefings since the election, but Pence, who's running the transition team, has been attending nearly every one.

I'm guessing that Pence has realized that he'll likely actually be the one running the country, one way or another.

Trump has it all worked out. From 8:00AM to lunchtime he'll be overseeing his businesses. One PM to five PM he'll be wearing his President's hat.

BTW let's hope that Betsy DeVos does not get confirmed. The public schools that will suffer most are those in the inner cities and here we have Trump declaring that the inner cities are one of his priorities