What Doesn't "Our" Government Regulate?

[S10Pilot]

Since retirement, I've had less time on my hands than when I was "earning" money.
In one of the slack times I was trying to think of ANYTHING that "our" government doesn't have their fingers in. While the National Forest, BLM, County and State land (all which is "ours", right?) are regulated and policed, hiking in them is one of our ever dwindling privileges. While the sale and documentation of books are subject to those who know much better how to run my life than I do, the content is no one's business but the reader and author.
Unfortunately it's a much smaller list to document those daily activities which aren't overseen than those which are.
Just wants to make my head want to explode!

 

[coastie]

Re: What Doesn't "Our" Government Regulate?

Sleep? Unless it's while you are driving, then it's probably regulated.


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[mrpincher]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh ::021::

Spring is here for gosh sakes.

Mike

 

[S10Pilot]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh ::021::

Spring is here for gosh sakes.

Mike

6" of new snow yesterday. Yep, Spring is here for gosh sakes!!!

 

[mrpincher]

Sorry to hear about the snow, lately we just get blowing dirt. It is warm dirt if that can be considered a consolation.

I do sympathize with you regarding our meddlesome gov agencies. Why just this morning I spent one entire hour standing at a counter at the county tax office trying to register a pickup for the second time. Its a long disheartening story. In the end I got my tags but I had to pay a fine that I legally didn't owe. Oh well who has time for that nonsense anyway?

::008:: "Don't let the bastards get ya down"

Mike

 

[Travex]

Itself.

 

[Checkswrecks]

Itself.

This is absolutely backwards, as the Government regulates itself more than anybody. Ever been in the military and been told how to roll your socks & tooth paste tube? What types of pens were acceptable and which were not?


I spent part of today simply trying to get a contractor's employee reimbursed for travel we needed him to take. Unfortunately, he is a foreigner where banking is not like ours and the US Federal Travel Regulations dictate specifically what types of bank accounts he personally needs to have so that our agency can deposit the funds.
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I've enjoyed a long career in public service but can hardly wait the 17 months till I'm eligible to retire. Not sure I want to pull the plug yet and will still need some type of income, but it's this kind of stuff that makes outside offers really attractive.

 

[Travex]

Very good Checkwrecks, and yes I'm a proud veteran.

"the Government regulates itself more than anybody" -- To that I say that governments need to regulate everything has diminished it's ability to regulate far too many things effectively and efficiently. Too overreaching for my traditional patriotic comfort. I'm very respectful of government, but have become necessarily suspect of it and am of the view that it's bureaucracy is divisively corrupt. One need look no further than current headlines for concurrence.

Best to you in your pending retirement!

 

[Derekj]

It does not regulate the money it spends.

 

[shrekonwheels]

This is absolutely backwards, as the Government regulates itself more than anybody. Ever been in the military and been told how to roll your socks & tooth paste tube? What types of pens were acceptable and which were not?


I spent part of today simply trying to get a contractor's employee reimbursed for travel we needed him to take. Unfortunately, he is a foreigner where banking is not like ours and the US Federal Travel Regulations dictate specifically what types of bank accounts he personally needs to have so that our agency can deposit the funds.
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I've enjoyed a long career in public service but can hardly wait the 17 months till I'm eligible to retire. Not sure I want to pull the plug yet and will still need some type of income, but it's this kind of stuff that makes outside offers really attractive.

And thus the problem, it regulates itself in areas which do not matter, such as rolling up your socks and your toothpaste.
Regulate its own money? Forget about it, working with the Forest Circus I was appalled at the amount of waste, mostly do to its inability to regulate anything important.
Most of the paperwork you mention are simply job security and brother in law jobs.

 

[coastie]

This is absolutely backwards, as the Government regulates itself more than anybody. Ever been in the military and been told how to roll your socks & tooth paste tube? What types of pens were acceptable and which were not?


I spent part of today simply trying to get a contractor's employee reimbursed for travel we needed him to take. Unfortunately, he is a foreigner where banking is not like ours and the US Federal Travel Regulations dictate specifically what types of bank accounts he personally needs to have so that our agency can deposit the funds.
:


I've enjoyed a long career in public service but can hardly wait the 17 months till I'm eligible to retire. Not sure I want to pull the plug yet and will still need some type of income, but it's this kind of stuff that makes outside offers really attractive.

You and I are in the same boat! February 2016 I hit my 20. It can't come soon enough.

 

[Checkswrecks]

And thus the problem, it regulates itself in areas which do not matter, such as rolling up your socks and your toothpaste.
Regulate its own money? Forget about it, working with the Forest Circus I was appalled at the amount of waste, mostly do to its inability to regulate anything important.
Most of the paperwork you mention are simply job security and brother in law jobs.

Instilling discipline is an essential part of any good military, so boot camp rolling of socks and dealing with tubes of toothpaste makes sense. If I have an embassy Marine guarding me in some 3rd world place while I work I REALLY am comforted to know he has this type of discipline!
I know little about the Forest Service so can't comment, but in my experience you are totally wrong on "job security and brother in law jobs." Job security went out in the 80s and 90s, we haven't had a raise in 3 years, and the next target is the retirement system.
Most of the silly Government regulating Government rules are knee-jerk overblown responses after some idiot got caught doing something stupid that he should have known better than to try in the first place. In the big companies I worked before the Gummint we had this too, it's just that the Govt is a bigger beaurocracy.

439 days . . .

 

[shrekonwheels]

Not a raise in three year? How horrible, the private sector wages have been stagnant for over 20.
The retirement should be gutted, retiring in twenty years is breaking the bac of this country, which brings us right back to the lack of regulation where it matters. Enjoy your early retirement while 80 percent of your civilian counterparts will never even see a retirement.

 

[XtreemLee]

Re: What Doesn't "Our" Government Regulate?

It all for your own good because apparently we are unable to control ourselves in anyway, I would prefer a more fascist oppressive type of government.