The "Office of Regulatory Reinvention" is the same as 'The office to legalize corruption.'
Rick Snyder was voted into office because he promised he could deliver a vibrant economy. Now, he is unable to do that and he is hunting for ways to make his friends happy, too.
The old Republican montra, "Deregulation and the economy will flourish." Removing 'dead wood' from the regulatory code is one thing, but, to revamp entire areas where people will be jeopardized is quite something else.
The problem is Rick is keeping all this under wraps. He is not being transparent with the process and the people of Michigan will be the victims. The electorate should have realized when he sold a Michigan firm for his own wealth his administration would focus on delivering more advantage to his interests and those of his friends.
That has long been a mantra of business groups. Now Gov. Rick Snyder has adopted the approach for state government as well. His Office of Regulatory Reinvention has been given the daunting task of sifting through all of the several thousand administrative rules promulgated over the past 40 years to determine which ones are, in fact, excessive....
