From the Patriot Post  dated 11/10/08

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"There are 15cabinet departments, nine of which control various aspects of the U.S. economy.  They are the Departments of:  Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Education, Energy, Labor, Agriculture, Commerce, and Interior.  In addition, there is an alphabet soup cluster of federal agencies such as: the IRS, the FRB, the EPA, FDA, SEC, CFTC, NLRB, FTC, FCC, FERC, FEMA, FAA, CAA, INS, OHSA, CPSC, NHTSA, EEOC, BATF, DEA, NIH, and NASA.  Heres my question to you:  Can one be sane and at the same time hold that ours is an unregulated laissez-faire ( thepractice or doctrine of non-interference in the affairs of others)economy?  Better yet, tell me what businessman, or for that matter you, can do that does not involve some kind of government regulation.  A businessman must seek government apporval for the minutest detail of his operation or face the wrath of some government agency, whether its at the federal, state, or local level.  Just about everything  we buy or use has some kind of government dictate involved whether its a package labeling, how many gallons of water to flush toilets, or what pharmaceutials can be prescribed.  You can say there's a reason for this government control.  Yes, there is a reason for everything but that does not change the fact that there is a massive government control over our economy."

 

Walter E. Williams

 

"Conservatism is not in trouble -- the Republican Party is.  Too many of its leaders at the ballot box or in its conservative journal have lost sight of the blindingly obvious:  Ronald Reagan was not just a winning personality whose time has come and gone.  He was in fact the living embodiment of a set of timeless principles that are not only the gravity of this political world we live in but its oxygen as well.  To borrow his once famous query:  If not now, when? If not us, who?"

 

Jeffery Lord