Barack Obama is well on his way to erecting his economic Berlin Wall to trap companies and businesses within the United States where they will be subject to our cumbersome tax laws and onerous regulations. 

If you listen only to Dear Ruler, you would believe that the man has done everything in his power to reduce the regulatory burdens on businesses in this country.  Last January he ordered his agencies to revamp clunky or unneeded regulations: “When we find rules that put an unnecessary burden on businesses, we will fix them.”  He’s touted his “unprecedented” effort to get rid of regulations that don’t make sense … which turns out not to be so “unprecedented” as he claims.  In fact, a U.S. Government Accountability Office report on July 16, 2007, states that, "Every president since President Carter has directed agencies to evaluate or reconsider existing regulations."  So what Barack Obama is doing isn’t exactly newsworthy – it’s just common sense, if, that is, he is actually doing it at all.

So now the House Republicans have a bill that would prevent federal agencies from issuing any new significant regulations until our unemployment rate reached 6%.  You can take a look at an example of three major regulations that were passed in 2011, meaning that they will have at least a $100 million impact on the economy.

As Obama and proggies opine over the fact that we are not creating jobs like we ought to be, remember that a recent survey from the National Federation of Independent Businesses found that the single biggest problem cited was government regulations.  From the Heritage Foundation …

Consider the size of the Federal Register, the daily official chronicle of regulatory changes. Before a new rule can take effect, it must be published in the Register. In 2009, it was 68,598 pages long. In 2010, it ballooned to 81,405. In 2011, the Register hit 82,415, a new record. The president’s reassurances to the contrary, the number keeps going up.

Regulations add $10,585 in costs per employee, according to a study for the Small Business Administration. With a price tag like that, it’s no wonder hiring has taken a hit in the midst of a fragile recovery.

Government getting the hell out of the way is hard for libs and proggies to understand.  They believe that America’s greatness comes from government, and that all-things private are inherently greedy and deceptive, in need of government regulation in order to maintain some level of acceptable proggie-relative morality.