The Chevron decision cuts both ways.
The original ruling allowed agencies to function effectively, which they cannot if every interpretative gray area in the law requires a court decision.
If the agency is working in the public interest, we definitely want it to exercise broad interpretive leeway. For instance, almost every important environmental decision in federal court over the past 40 years is based upon Chevron. Without it, the EPA (not an entirely captured agency) is virtually powerless.
But when corporate interests have captured a federal agency, then the same interpretive leeway gives the agency even more power to serve their corporate masters at the expense of the public interest. Thus we have the FDA sending armed police to shut down Amish farmers and grocery stores for selling raw milk, while they allow into our food supply hundreds of harmful but profitable chemical additives that are banned in other countries.
The Chevron controversy is therefore a false dilemma with no solution. The real issue is corporate capture. If federal agencies served the public interest, then no one would want to hamstring them.
As President Biden's cognitive competence comes under attack by the mainstream media, the DNC is doubling down on its strategy of keeping viable, non-Trump, candidates off the ballot. The DNC's disenfranchised cartel today filed a vague and specious claim against our campaign for allegedly colluding with the American Values Super PAC.
Our campaign has complied in every regard with the letter and spirit of federal election laws with a transparency that is absent in every other campaign.
The DNC is accusing my campaign of FEC violations in the form of sharing state-approved petition formats — petition formats so secretive they are posted on our website for use by all our volunteers nationwide.
The efforts by the DNC to suppress democracy, silence descent, and handpick our national leaders in smoke-filled rooms are radical departures from the core values of a party my family helped to build.
#Kennedy24 🇺🇸
5/5 So big questions: how do we (the small business owners) provide paid training knowing the trainees might go out on their own at some point? How do we offer profit sharing? What are the clear steps of succession to being a lead carpenter or plumbing mechanic or project manager
4/5 Roughly 42% of college students never complete a degree and probably never should have started. Many of those who don’t finish a degree have all the debt and none of the benefits. Trades can offer career paths where training is paid and wage growth is exponentially faster!
3/5 Fast forward many years and several degrees later I found myself in the trades fulfilled and well compensated. My forays into the white collar world were a disaster. Show of hands, how many tradesmen attempted the college and white collar path only to find it a bad fit?
2/5 Coming up through both the public and private school systems the common drum beat and chorus was “college is the answer.” At times college was even pitched as the cure for blue collar labor, which at best was ignored and at worst was viewed as a punishment.
1/5 President Biden announced roughly $9 Billion in student loan debt relief. When will the government do something about the predatory student loan industry or the useless degree programs foisted on young adults with little prospect of good employment with an actual ROI?
@BretWeinstein religion does not necessarily mean that you have to have a belief in a deity? Religion provides a framework for praxis for something that gives life meaning. Sports fanatics are engaging in a religion. Veganism could be a religion. Dead heads are religious zealots! Scientism!
@kennethtanner It has become fashionable to be disillusioned by or to deconstruct one’s faith especially if you are or were in leadership. Absolutely the best way to confirm you’re headed in the right direction is to do the opposite of what’s fashionable signed a #formerpunk rocker