{"id":135891,"date":"2018-02-12T08:23:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135891"},"modified":"2018-02-18T10:40:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T17:40:36","slug":"infrastructure-regulations-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/12\/infrastructure-regulations-lies.html","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure, Regulations, and Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

A look at one of Donald Trump’s go-to lines from his “State of the Union” self-applause-fest<\/a>:<\/p>\n

America is a nation of builders. We built the Empire State Building in just one year. Isn\u2019t it a disgrace that it can now take ten years just to get a minor permit approved for the building of a simple road.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump has said this multiple times in the past, and as he lurches toward an “infrastructure” bill, I’m sure we’ll hear more. But is it actually true?<\/i> And, if permitting of federal-level infrastructure projects takes time … is that a good<\/i> thing or a bad<\/i> thing?<\/p>\n

We all dislike restraints on our actions. But those restraints, regulations, permission processes, reviews, etc., are usually in place for actual historical reasons. And before we toss them out because they are inconvenient and make it difficult for someone to make more money faster, they need to be looked at from that historical perspective. Otherwise we get that whole “are condemned to repeat it” thing going again.<\/p>\n

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A look at one of Donald Trump’s go-to lines from his “State of the Union” self-applause-fest: America is a nation of builders. We built the Empire State Building in just one year. Isn\u2019t it a disgrace that it can now take ten years just to get a minor permit approved for the building of a … Continue reading “Infrastructure, Regulations, and Lies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,374,358,46,376,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-money-politics","category-poor-citizenship","category-school-daze","category-taxing-spending","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/st+francis+dam+after+the+break.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137597,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/06\/on-the-prospective-national-emergency.html","url_meta":{"origin":135891,"position":0},"title":"On the prospective National Emergency","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-Jan-19 11:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's easy to roll one's eyes and mutter \"There he goes again\" at Donald Trump's suggestion that he might \"declare a national emergency\" over goings-on at the southern border. \"How can it be an emergency,\" one might ask, \"if it's been going on for decades? 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