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We hear occasionally about the tremendous burden government regulations place on the economy. According to
Great personalized example of the boundless bureaucracy we’ve built ourselves.
I wish you all the best getting through this mess King Prawn.
If it helps any, I was diagnosed with sleep apnea after an overnight sleep study, hooked up to a Cpap to sleep with for a year. Several months ago went to a heart/lung specialist who did different type of test with tubes and ex-rays, and guess what? No sleep apnea. So, should you be diagnosed, over $1000 worth of machine and supplies are yours for the shipping cost. A many of the nose masks and tubes never out of their packages.
And stop procrastinating, just go get it done! Your livelihood depends on it.
“I will fight for you!”, the usual cliche of candidates at every level, grates on me like nails on chalkboard.
Almost every single regulation on the books was designed with wonderful intentions. Whether it’s safety of the public, healthcare for the poor, or clean air and water, you’re right that there is no malicious intent. But voters, in their blinding stupidity, fall for the candidate who promises “to fight for them!” against mysterious and nefarious forces at the state capital or Washington.
The result is the hours limitations, medical restrictions, ever-expanding EPA rules and Obamacare.
There was a very recent, former, presidential candidate who said “I want government to be inconsequential to your daily lives”. Voters obvious don’t care about that.
It applies even if the sleep apnea is being treated?
I’m so sorry, KP. Have you read Charles Murray’s By the People? We all need to get on board with his plan. I hope you get the all-clear in the next month, which of course, you deserve!
I’ve taken the earliest available appointment for each step in the process, and I’m almost 5 months into it anyway.
If it is diagnosed it must be treated and compliance with the treatment verified annually to maintain medical certification. I can see where this makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is compelling people without a diagnosis to seek one, in my case based almost exclusively on BMI, not actual symptoms such as daytime drowsiness or observation of interrupted respiration during sleep (and my wife watches for this), but on a height/weight ratio. To make matters even more grating, the pulmonologist said that if this wasn’t for a DoT physical he would just tell me to lose a few pounds. This has nothing to do with sound medicine and everything to do with regulatory compliance.
Okay. Yeah, if all they have is that you are the right size, then they are pushing it too hard.
We are past the statist tipping point, we are in the No Way Out zone.
You know KP, you have some illustrious company. Bob Hoover, WWII ace, used to do air shows in a Twin Commander performing rolls and loops close to the ground with one engine feathered. After an air show, I think late 1990’s, the the flight line topped off his Commander with Jet Fuel instead of AvGas. After take off both engines quit and he made a forced landing in a field. The FAA pulled his medical certificate. The man was a world class pilot with no medical problems and yet the FAA refused to reissue his medical so he was grounded.
Bob Hoover was as good as it gets.
I’ll go ahead and add a little more irony to the journey: being subject to the DoT regulations is entirely voluntary on the part of the Dept. of the Navy. Another new DoT regulation is that all interstate drivers must keep a copy of their medical certificate on file with the state issuing the driver’s license. Each time I renew my license I check the box marked “Government Employee, Exempt” and give them nothing.
Considering human nature, and the desire for money being powerful in a capitalist society which causes people to do some negligent or reckless things in the pursuit thereof, business is going to be regulated and subject to lawsuits.
I suppose we try to find a balance between the two.
I prefer lawsuits to regulation. Regulation costs those in the industry who have done nothing wrong money. Lawsuits target just he guy in the industry who did something wrong.
Insurances, compulsory or otherwise, come into play in this analysis.
Except the frivolous ones, but, like you said — balance.
Those are rare.
You’ll find plenty more instances of frivolous defenses than frivolous complaints.
I’m about to finish building our retirement home and can really sympathize with you. Some regulations make sense in a general way but just don’t fit with the design I created for or house. I’m having to do expensive things that are unwanted and unnecessary, some of which I’ll undo after the inspections are finished. This is liberty?
Tales of regulation gone nonsensical and even harmful like this are all to common. Regulation is one-size-fits-all, oh, with the best of intentions (usually, not always). Regulation is most efficient at a nay one thing: stifling innovation.
Merina,
Good suggestion. I looked it up and may buy it. Here’s the Amazon link.
Godspeed, KP. It seems like you’ve been through enough lately.
I am building a new house and trying to start a yard. I live in Indiana, where we get more water than we need from the sky. So wasting water is not an issue. This weekend I turned on the sprinkler on my new house and the water only went about 5 foot. Why? All the hose spigots restrict the water flow. So, now it takes twice as long to water my yard and I have to move the sprinkle twice as often.
Oh I all the other devices also restrict flow (shower, tub, kitchen faucet, etc.). It drives me nuts.
I have a post in development about the new urinals at work that are so efficient they don’t even dilute the urine in them.
At least they’ve not gone yet to composting toilets.
If your state doesn’t have a water problem, you can take the flow restrictors out of the spigots. I took them out of my shower head and the kitchen faucet. I refuse to let the apt management replace my toilet either, it flushes just fine. I don’t have to flush it 4 times for one use.
often you can go online, across state borders, or to a yard sale to get usable spigots etc. which are not tailored to those rules; get spares!
Someone should be (and perhaps someone is) collecting regulatory horror stories to dramatize them. Reality TV maybe. It is not until the those who never suffer much from regulation hear poignant stories from those that do will there be enough pressure on our elected representatives to cut government, eliminate agencies and reform others to cut red tape.
As I think about it, I like there reality TV idea. We need a title. How about “Red Tape Horror Picture Show.” “FrankenGov” “Stupid Government Tricks”