Comment by ajmurmann

It's most startling to me that there seems to be this implicit assumption that people working in the bureaucracy are the ones making the rules. The rules are being requested by Congress. One can like it dislike the rules but if we want fewer of them it's Congress who most remove them. It also should be possible for any reasonable person to see that if we ask the government to do something we should want to do it well. The worst outcome is creating lots of rules and regulations that then get badly implemented and I need to wait years for my permit, passport renewal, tax return etc or our national parks turn into fire hazards and similar.