The most dangerous man in the US Government

Federal law--- implementation and enforcement

Hopefully (?) US citizens are familiar with how federal laws are written, debated, passed by Congress and the Senate and then signed into law by the president.

Most people do not know how laws are implemented and enforced.

Non-elected appointed government lawyers and their staffs convert laws into CFR’s, the Code of Federal Regulation (CFR’s)

What happens in the translation and enforcement depends, in many instances, on the philosophy of the lead lawyers. CFR’s can be revised without further input/review by elected officials.

Currently the lead “Regulation Czar”, appointed by President Obama, is Cass Sunstein. The right calls him “the most dangerous man in the US government”. Google Sunstein’s name if you are not familiar with his positions on things like energy. President Obama said he would bankrupt the fossil fuel industry The fossil fuel industry is presently screaming about the thirty plus new regulation that Sunstein has issued that “will bankrupt their industry”.

In the past CFR document have been revised and issued to control manufacturing deemed undesirable by environmentalists. In my home area in western Pennsylvania  CFR/ EPA requirements contributed to the closure of Steel Mills, coal mining and coke ovens, causing major job providers to move to Canada.

The Clean Air Act CFR forced the closure of a friend’s iron foundry. The factory had been started by my friend’s grandfather to manufacture manhole covers for world wide users. My friend got a second mortgage on his house and scraped together every penny available to install the best air pollution control equipment available. The equipment missed meeting requirement by a percentage point. The EPA forced him to shut down or be fined $5,000 per day. Jobs lost-lives destroyed. The EPA knew the requirements could not be meet with existing scrubbing equipment.

The Clean Air Act also forced the closure of foundries in two large manufacturing plants in my home town. Eventually both plants shut down. More lives destroyed.

The endangered species act CFR has been used to stop construction of flood control dams and electrical generation plants.

Senator Harry Reid threatened to put game birds on the threatened species list to force agreement on an unrelated issue. Barney Frank used the act to stop construction of a commercial site on a river in his district.

I worked in the Nuclear Power industry. We were controlled by 10CFR50 Appendix B. The CFR imposed American Society of Mechanical Engineers codes and standards on nuclear power plant pressure containing equipment. The ASME issued an appendix to their codes every year. Each appendix was about an inch thick. Every three years the code was updated by incorporating all the appendices.

When we placed an order for equipment the Code in affect (including all appendices) on the purchase date was the code used for design, manufacturing and testing.

Insiders in the government who opposed nuclear power allowed people, who were not involved in the construction of power plants, to participate in the review/licensing process for nuclear power plants. The “interveners” were allowed to attend Hearings and question every aspect of the design, construction and operation of the plant. The intervener’s intent was to delay construction, increase cost and dissuade nuclear power plant construction. The delays bankrupted the construction of 5 nuclear power plants in Washington State (WOOPS).

The nuclear CFR was changed to require the ASME code for equipment design/manufacturing/testing to be based on the date of the Construction Permit for the plant. The years of delay interveners injected in the Licensing and Permit process required equipment manufacturers to review the new code appendix every year and to certify that design/manufacturing/testing meet the “new” code or to revise or scrap the equipment.

The one sentence change in the CFR was costing my employer ten million dollars a year. It took me three years of intense lobbying and support of a future US Secretary of State and a US Senator to get the CFR change to be rescinded.

Recently a US Senator on TV described the mayhem that is being caused by the deluge of new regulations that could destroy the country.

The EPA has evidently caused the shutdown of fossil fuel companies. An EPA executive resigned recently because of a “Crucifixion” (control of dissidents) reference.

This destruction of the US economy is not new. It has been has been in process for fifty years.

If we allow the present slide to continue the Greatest Country in the World will decline to Third World Status.

Please research the goals of the environmentalist movement and who is funding them. The crazy ones want to shut down US industry, imprison CEO’s, and have you live in communes while riding bicycles! We would become the old China and China will become the “new” USA.

If you don’t become informed and actively participate (write/email/call your elected reps, write letters to editors and VOTE) you will be responsible for the future!!

Get busy!!!!!

Don’t be discouraged if you get an “Auto Responses” or are brushed off by a snippy phone answer person. Be persistent and report non-responsive actions to newspaper “Letter to the editor” pages. Post responses on community bulletin boards.

A word of caution: While trying to get “Officials” to review or take action on a potential terrorist plot (before and after 9/11) my computer screen suddenly displayed a skull and cross bones and a “Die Bastard” epitaph. My computer screen went blank and my hard drive was wiped out. This occurred after I forwarded a CDC (Center for Disease Control) Report about potential deliberate contamination of our water supply system, which supported my concerns, to a Federal Cabinet Member.  She didn’t know that the CDC( under her direction,)  supported a concern that she said could not and did not exist. I had also, just prior to my computer malfunction, sent an email to a Federal “threat advisement group” formed after 9/11, advising that the new “System” wasn’t working because all emails and phone calls were being rejected due to “overload of their system”!   

Document your activity, back up your hard drive and have a good security program for your computer.

Finally, don’t bug or lecture your friends. Bug your elected officials! BE INFORMED AND VOTE!!

I don’t care if you are a liberal or conservative:

DO NOT ALLOW THE UNINFORMED, CONVENIENT  IDIOT, GROUP THINKERS DESTROY THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH.