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be afraid of this government...be very afraid

 

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The great Supreme Court took down Chevron, a federal power grab from the voters with a 40 year precedent.

We should all be celebrating. Notice how Democrats are attacking the court for this long overdue decision. I suppose they will change their minds when Trump wins in November and appoints new heads to the federal agencies. Liberals are fickle, sort-sighted fools.

For those not familiar with "Chevron" if was a decision by the courts in the 1980s to allow federal agencies to essentially write laws where they felt congress's intentions were not clear. Over time, federal agencies began to abuse this ruling to basically create federal mandates for corporations and individual citizens without congressional approval. Almost all of us have been affected by this ruling at one time or another, and not necessarily in a good way.

The argument is we should allow "experts" in these agencies to decide certain matter because politicians do not have the expertise. This is nonsense of course for 2 reasons. 1. Congress passes laws on matters they are clueless about all the time. The rely on their own experts, which is what public hearings are for. 2. Anyone who has dealt with these agency experts, like I have, knows they are mostly not experts. They are either inexperienced college brats, or long time government bureaucrats. Their expertise is far exceeded by that of private sector experts. That is my experience. Government experts allowed Enron, Madoff, and the 2007 financial crisis mostly because they had no clue what was going on and were incapable of understanding the complexities of these cases. Government experts are wrong all the time.

Overturning Chevron returns power to the elected representatives of the people, like it should be.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/...chevron-curtailing-power-of-federal-agencies/
 

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2. Anyone who has dealt with these agency experts, like I have, knows they are mostly not experts. They are either inexperienced college brats, or long time government bureaucrats. Their expertise is far exceeded by that of private sector experts. That is my experience.

or people that graduated at the bottom of their class and cant get jobs elsewhere. Engineers who choose ( or have to settle) working for the City are virtually never going to be the best and the brightest because why the hell would they take a lesser paying job to work in an environment that doesnt reward creativity, risk, outside the box thinking, etc?

I deal with these people all the damn time as I try to build cool shit and they are always an obstacle & never helpful. I now have to pay an ex-city staffer to help me navigate the incompetence and inefficiency just to help keep my sanity. Hell, recently the permit department moved to a new building. This is the part of the government that issues permits, does inspections and issues certificates of occupancy. In the height of irony, they failed at doing their job at their own damn building and had to stop the move midway through the process and move back to their old location because they failed inspection.

Dallas Botched Renovations of Its New Permitting Office

Often times I have to recite the code to staffers after they tell me I cant do something I've proposed. I had a guy shut me down immediately when I mentioned using a shipping container for a tiny restaurant. Then I showed him why it was ok and he said (to his credit) "wow, you really know your stuff, I guess you can do that".

WHAT THE F?!

Had another a-hole hang up me merely because I was trying to find a way to design the required ugly mop sink/faucet into a location that was outside of the main eating area

I could go on and on...

These folks that get trapped working for government fall into a malaise created by the boredom, incompetence, redundancy of meaningless tasks, lack of incentive, limited to no opportunity to increase income beyond a cap regardless of effort, etc, etc...This creates an environment and employee where they just want to avoid pain at all costs, hold on until retirement, get their pension and GTFO. Its a NIGHTMARE to deal with these types and slowly kills all motivation I have to do anything nice.

I've got a project that's been held up for 2+ years dealing with the DART and TxDOT. This isnt limited to government, it happens with any huge bureaucracy but at least the AT&Ts of the world will reward ingenuity, cost savings, etc which should translate into better service but it hasn't happened yet with their technical support.

However, my experience with AT&T technical support gave me a great idea on how to reduce prison overcrowding:

In lieu of prison, sentence non-violent offenders to 8 hours of AT&T technical support for the duration of their sentence

Personal responsibility has a way killing this mindset thus why you virtually never see this crap in a well run successful private business. Just the opposite because their success hinges on pleasing their customers vs the disdain the government shows toward theirs

Other than that, I really don't have an opinion on the matter and havent thought about it that much
 

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or people that graduated at the bottom of their class and cant get jobs elsewhere. Engineers who choose ( or have to settle) working for the City are virtually never going to be the best and the brightest because why the hell would they take a lesser paying job to work in an environment that doesnt reward creativity, risk, outside the box thinking, etc?

I deal with these people all the damn time as I try to build cool shit and they are always an obstacle & never helpful. I now have to pay an ex-city staffer to help me navigate the incompetence and inefficiency just to help keep my sanity. Hell, recently the permit department moved to a new building. This is the part of the government that issues permits, does inspections and issues certificates of occupancy. In the height of irony, they failed at doing their job at their own damn building and had to stop the move midway through the process and move back to their old location because they failed inspection.

Dallas Botched Renovations of Its New Permitting Office

Often times I have to recite the code to staffers after they tell me I cant do something I've proposed. I had a guy shut me down immediately when I mentioned using a shipping container for a tiny restaurant. Then I showed him why it was ok and he said (to his credit) "wow, you really know your stuff, I guess you can do that".

WHAT THE F?!

Had another a-hole hang up me merely because I was trying to find a way to design the required ugly mop sink/faucet into a location that was outside of the main eating area

I could go on and on...

These folks that get trapped working for government fall into a malaise created by the boredom, incompetence, redundancy of meaningless tasks, lack of incentive, limited to no opportunity to increase income beyond a cap regardless of effort, etc, etc...This creates an environment and employee where they just want to avoid pain at all costs, hold on until retirement, get their pension and GTFO. Its a NIGHTMARE to deal with these types and slowly kills all motivation I have to do anything nice.

I've got a project that's been held up for 2+ years dealing with the DART and TxDOT. This isnt limited to government, it happens with any huge bureaucracy but at least the AT&Ts of the world will reward ingenuity, cost savings, etc which should translate into better service but it hasn't happened yet with their technical support.

However, my experience with AT&T technical support gave me a great idea on how to reduce prison overcrowding:

In lieu of prison, sentence non-violent offenders to 8 hours of AT&T technical support for the duration of their sentence

Personal responsibility has a way killing this mindset thus why you virtually never see this crap in a well run successful private business. Just the opposite because their success hinges on pleasing their customers vs the disdain the government shows toward theirs

Other than that, I really don't have an opinion on the matter and havent thought about it that much
I feel bad saying what I wrote because I did meet some good people working for government regulators, but the fact is, they lacked real world experience. I had friends who left our company to work for the government and they admitted it was a joke. Truthfully, most of them were bureaucrats too!

I spent about 18 years in software development, and another 20 in cybersecurity. I dealt with all kinds of agency experts and I was never impressed by any of them. The NSA had some really smart guys, so did the FBI, at the time. I am not sure that is true anymore. But the guys making the rules were just at a loss how to deal with what goes on in real life.
 

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I feel bad saying what I wrote because I did meet some good people working for government regulators, but the fact is, they lacked real world experience. I had friends who left our company to work for the government and they admitted it was a joke. Truthfully, most of them were bureaucrats too!

I spent about 18 years in software development, and another 20 in cybersecurity. I dealt with all kinds of agency experts and I was never impressed by any of them. The NSA had some really smart guys, so did the FBI, at the time. I am not sure that is true anymore. But the guys making the rules were just at a loss how to deal with what goes on in real life.

A lot of the people I mention are nice, good people but the system overrides all that to the point where there’s never any urgency, passion, etc

I think anyone of us put into those thankless jobs & with that environment would end up being the same, it’s the lack of incentive coupled with a lack of accountability, or at least the type of accountability one has when they’re trying to run their own business, desperate to survive. There’s a level of security that comes with knowing the government pretty much makes it impossible for you to get fired that fosters apathy coupled with endless rules creating a maze of confusion for everyone involved. I think this would turn just about everyone into a turd except for those who just get off on power tripping but they were already a turd to begin with
 

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A lot of the people I mention are nice, good people but the system overrides all that to the point where there’s never any urgency, passion, etc

I think anyone of us put into those thankless jobs & with that environment would end up being the same, it’s the lack of incentive coupled with a lack of accountability, or at least the type of accountability one has when they’re trying to run their own business, desperate to survive. There’s a level of security that comes with knowing the government pretty much makes it impossible for you to get fired that fosters apathy coupled with endless rules creating a maze of confusion for everyone involved. I think this would turn just about everyone into a turd except for those who just get off on power tripping but they were already a turd to begin with
The other point I would make is politics corrupts everything. Experts can know their stuff inside out but if they let politics taint their opinions, all their expertise is worth nothing. I have to imagine politics is a reality in DC for everyone.
 

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cant stand that guy, its stunning to me he rolled out there red carpet for Xi Jinping and basically created a garage for a damn dictator which seems to me would be like FDR having Hitler visit NYC in the 1930's

Is anyone in our gov aware of what a shit show China is & how they are actively seeking our demise?

In retrospect, shipping manufacturing to China appears to have been a horrible decision
 

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cant stand that guy, its stunning to me he rolled out the red carpet for Xi Jinping and basically created a parade for a damn dictator which seems to me would be like FDR having Hitler visit NYC in the 1930's

Is anyone in our gov aware of what a shit show China is & how they are actively seeking our demise?

In retrospect, shipping manufacturing to China appears to have been a horrible decision
Damn it auto correct screws me every damn time, I gotta proof read the hell out of everything I write, my post correct in quotes, mods please go back to allowing posts to be edited any time
 
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