Obama Urges Independent Agencies to Shed Burdensome Rules

[The Northerner]

President Barack Obama urged independent agencies to consider proposals that would cut paperwork and eliminate outdated rules, broadening his effort to remove or overhaul unnecessary U.S. regulations.

Obama’s order is aimed at bodies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Labor Relations Board, excluded from the effort among federal departments he started in January to drop rules that stifle economic expansion without helping consumers.

“I hope you see this as an opportunity to something big and lasting -- to change the ways of Washington,” Obama said today in a statement to the agencies. “We are taking immediate steps to eliminate millions of hours in annual paperwork burdens for large and small businesses and save more than $1 billion in annual regulatory costs.”

The administration said in May that more than 30 agencies from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to the Food and Drug Administration are seeking to repeal or modify regulations to reduce reporting requirements and trim compliance costs. As part of the effort, rules for vapor-recovery systems at gas stations are being dropped and labeling requirements for hazardous materials are being altered.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-11/obama-urges-independent-agencies-to-shed-burdensome-rules-1-.html

[LARED]

1. I hope this works, but I keep having visions

of a whole new layer of paper work to get permission to avoid filling out papar work.

[999998th word]

2. Is this from our Democratic president-

greasing the way to make corporations etc..even less accountable??
I hope that is just a misunderstanding on my part?:wtf:

[saras]

3. Bad news, wrong way, long-term costs far outweigh short-term gains - here we go again

"The administration said in May that more than 30 agencies from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to the Food and Drug Administration are seeking to repeal or modify regulations to reduce reporting requirements..."

Reporting of what?
"labeling requirements for hazardous materials are being altered."

"...and trim compliance costs."
What kind of costs are they cutting? An example, please?
"As part of the effort, rules for vapor-recovery systems at gas stations are being dropped..."

The article itself, on the other hand, sucks. Calling them biased names like "outdated" or "burdensome" doesn't contribute to anyone's understanding, and the last paragraph implies that we are currently being buried under a new avalanche of unsupportable regulations. Following this ROFL, they quote Republican Cliff Stearns of Florida as support for Obama's policy change.

It will, of course, be a local issue exactly what previously solved problem will be returned to your community, so there's not much hope of organizing against it either. Our health is for sale, and it isn't worth much these days compared to corporate profit.

[TheKentuckian]

4. What is the plan here, to find all the boxes of why we don't vote TeaPubliKlan

and check them off minus gawdawful bigotry and see where we fall?