The big legislative updates that we need to compete in the 21st century and to raise living standards have been blocked by a reluctance to seek common ground.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.
Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.
People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.
While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes.
When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.
It's not that things won't change - they can't help but change. Things are becoming more and more competitive.
Let's listen to the people and find common ground to remove barriers to job creation.
The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades.