@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote:
okie, This is a dynamic world where things change; we are now in a Great Recession, and what might have been proper government control two decades ago may be wrong for today.
You need to be specific as to what you mean. Government control is too general to put into action or understand. Please explain yourself, if you can.
Government control of what?
Obviously, this forum is not able to discuss every single issue and regulation, ci. It is more a matter of philosophical approach as it is the specifics. Philosophical approach then brings about the final results or consequences. What we need is more trust in people instead of blind adherence to regulation. What we need is to reduce the adversarial relationship of government toward business in general, and it starts right at the top, with the president.
I will try to give you an example. I was recently told about a business that had a contract to purchase a commercial building and storage areas. However, before the purchase of the building could be completed, it came to the attention of the city, which decided that they wished to extend their city limit out to encompass the building. Given this eventuality, it was then determined that curb and gutter would be required, plus paving and handicap access and parking. The silly part of this is that the use of the building and storage is not used by the handicap, it is a commercially used building, plus parking spaces for boats, rvs, and stuff like that. It has been graveled forever, and there is no need to pave the thing. It is in an area of relative undevelopment, plus the city owns land across the street that is overgrown with weeds. The whole issue was silly, and because of the prospect of having to spend alot of money to buy the property, the sale fell through so that the current condition will continue at the property. To be clear, that was a local issue, but it is a good example of how inefficient and silly that government can be.
Another case recently had a major fast food chain decide not to come to town, simply because they would be required to pay for additional turn lanes and widening of a street, which would make their parking too small, even though none of the adjacent businesses had turn lanes with no problems existing. This was not on a major thoroughfare, but on a lightly traveled frontage road.
Blind adherence to regulations reminds me of the military and basic training. Army manual xxxxx dash 38 dash 14 or some such number, you get the drift, said that each foot locker of every soldier had to have a shaving brush neatly placed in a certain position in the locker, and it better be that way at inspection, or else, even though most of us were using electric razors. So we all had to go out to the PX to buy shaving brushes for everybody even though most never used them.