The Trump/Musk grifters are certain that they are making America great again by eliminating every federal agency that actually makes America great, and in so doing are destroying the innovations that make American products the best in the world. Agencies such as the FDA, FAA, and EPA, are agencies created by Congress to help the executive branch (the president) to enforce the laws that Congress passes to keep us safe and prosperous because neither Congress — nor any president — could know enough about all of the different fields for which Congress must pass laws and regulations.
Regulations actually spur innovation; they do not impede innovation and progress. Regulations challenge resourceful innovation to solve problems with food, drug and environmental safety in creative ways.
If there were no regulations, no basic problems to solve, corporations would simply take the cheapest and dirtiest options for making a product and dealing with its waste and risk factors; no innovation would be necessary, just cheap, crummy, and dirty; the way America used to be, in the good ole days, when rivers and landfills would spontaneously burst into flames because of toxic waste buildup.
That’s when America sure was great, if only we could make America like that again. Let’s get rid of those stupid EPA environmental regulations, let companies pollute as much as they want.
The problem is that big companies don’t really want an America without regulations because they actually have more regulations placed upon their products by the customers themselves.
Regulations give each company’s products a unique market niche. For example, a chemical company that develops products for the cosmetic industry (like Revlon, or Avon, or Mary Kay) has a list as long as your right leg as to what this product MUST do, and a list as long as your left leg as to what this product must NOT do; a few governments environmental regulations are not the chemical company’s most challenging concerns. The way in which this hypothetical chemical company makes money is by applying for patents on the products they develop for other companies who are their customers.
The Constitution empowers Congress to regulate the limited right to patents. The chemical company must apply to the congressional patent office to protect their unique and special product that they discovered through their own research development and experimentation to gain an edge in the business and sales markets. When it comes to things like scientific innovations, such as chemical engineering, Congress has developed some basic environmental guidelines to which all companies must adhere.
Herein lies the rub.
In the case of the chemical company, before the patent office can grant the request, Congress requires that the product must pass an environmental review by the EPA. This is how Congress helps the president enforce the laws it passes.
But, the brilliant Trump/Musk tag team of meddling MAGA morons has decided to get rid of the EPA.
So, now our little chemical company in, say, Livingston County, Michigan, can apply for the patent, which is the basis for the products they make for the cosmetic industry, and a variation on the same innovation is used in making high quality finishes for kitchen cabinets, and also for putting down road lines and stripes that cure almost immediately, with very little traffic delay, saving everyone time and money.
But, because there is no more EPA, and it’s still the law that they must have EPA approval for the product, they will never get the patent approved, never make the products for any customer companies, which can’t market a new line of products that reflect their own ideas and innovations, and that they developed with the chemical company. None of these products go to market.
The only products that will be issued patents are for companies owned by Elon Musk, but his products won’t have to demonstrate any resourceful innovation, because he’s Elon Musk, and he doesn’t give a flying fart about your company, or any of your brilliant and creative ideas for products. He’s Elon Musk, South African immigrant with brilliant emerald mine inheritance skills. He’s here to rip you off, and Donald Trump is going to help him.
Thank goodness America is getting back to the greatness it once had, where it wasn’t about what you know and your great ideas, when it was all about who you know to pull the strings for you.
So, Elon Musk pulls the strings that move Donald Trump’s right arm, and Vladimir Putin pulls the strings that move Donald Trumpís left arm, and Donald Trump pulls the strings that screw YOU over and make his puppet masters rich.
Thank goodness America is great again; or, at least it is for a couple of freakish, blow hard billionaires, who don’t need YOU for anything, do they?
Paul W. Richardson
Brighton
