100,000 pages of new rules by federal bureaucrats? WTH!! How much is THAT going to cost us?

Photo above - if you were worried that your school district would ask for input on cell phone rules during school hours, you can rest easy. The federal government has stepped in. This is one of the 100,000 pages of new rules concocted by bureaucrats this year, without voter input.

Pop quiz . . . which presidential administration enacted the most regulations? (bureaucrat rules, NOT actual laws passed by congress.)

That would be the Biden administration. With 100,000 pages of new rules. For 2024 alone! There were tens of thousands of new rules in each of the 3 prior years of Biden's term, too.

Evidently the rush is on to embed as many fees, surcharges, penalties, federal data collection and administrivia as possible before the White House changes hands. See link below.

Do ordinary Americans benefit from any of these changes? Possibly, but it’s hard pin it down. For example, one of the new rules establishes “protection against sudden college closures”. Which sounds like it MIGHT be helpful. Except the biggest problem for students is crushing student loan debt . . . not the chance that their college might randomly declare bankruptcy. There are no new regulations deterring colleges and lenders from piling new debt onto students.

I found another education rule being finalized: student access to use of cell phones at school. Evidently parents will be unable to ask their schools to ban cell phones completely. “But mooom . . . the president says I should bring my iPhone to school. You know, in case there’s an active shooter or something. So I can call you to pick me up. I PROMISE I'm NOT getting depressed from all this doom scrolling. I'm mostly just looking at deepfake nudes of the other kids in class . . . "

I’m very old school. I don’t think having federal agencies which report to the "president-du-jour' write (and rewrite) their own rules all the time is what the constitution intended. In civics class we learned that congress is supposed to draft laws (not corporate lobbyists and federal bureaucrats), and the president either signs or vetoes them.

How many actual “laws” did congress pass this year? 42. (This is also the “answer to everything” in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy). Is 42 new laws enough, or too many? If your life wasn’t changed for the better in a specific way you can put your finger on, these 100,000 bureaucrat rules AND the 42 new laws probably were a waste of time and money. Busy work for law school grads who couldn't pass the bar exam, and are now working as tenured GS13's at the Bureau of Indian affairs.

There have been 14 executive orders (so far) in 2024. What kind of orders? Two of them dealt with disputes by railroad engineers in New Jersey. An order “recognizing women’s history”. Eliminating sanctions on Zimbabwe (!!) And imposing sanctions on Gaza leaders. On and on. Do you feel safer and happier now?

I’m just askin’ . . .

'Gov't knows best': Biden admin breaks Obama record for filling Federal Register with most regulations

Biden-Harris Administration Releases Final Rules that Strengthen Accountability for Colleges and Consumer Protection for Students | U.S. Department of Education

PolitiFact | Is the current Congress the least productive of our lifetime? So far, yes

Federal Register :: Executive Orders