Dismantle THIS

New Executive Order signed yesterday by #45.  All department heads are to present ideas about the dismantlement of their agency or area of the executive branch.  What a surprising idea from the Republicans!  NOT.

Government is a big damn mess, and the regulations and countermeasures could (and does) choke anyone trying to figure it all out.  So hey...is this a good thing?

Well, honestly, it may have undertones of populist "drain the swamp" and "simplify" but it ain't gonna happen.  At least not in a long-term, sustainable way.  But in their efforts to push their austerity agenda and deregulate all their buddies in corporate America, we risk some real rollbacks of those good things government has achieved.

Remember horrifying brown air as a given in large cities?  I do.  And the various regulations put in place since then have changed that in a big way.  Remember the Cuyahoga River burning from all the pollution?  Again, regulations made a difference there.  But Republicans continue to push the fairytale that businesses and markets will gladly regulate themselves and don't need no steenkin' gubmint getting in their business.

Sigh.  I gotta say, I'm a wanna-be emigrant.  The only thing standing in my way is lack of money.  And I'm not even sure if it's worth staying and fighting the good fight if I HAD money.  I just know it's scary as hell out there now and I worry about the quality of life for my grandchildren.  Calgon, take me away!