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Originally Posted by ilovetv
It's all a game to them--these senate confirmations of appointees, especially....there are thousands too many appointed positions every four years with a new administration....
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I don't disagree that there are altogether too many political appointees. On the other hand, if Congress writes legislation that is supposed to be implemented by those appointees--and then refuses to fill the positions--who ultimately will pay the price?
The politicians made a big deal about how Dodd-Frank was going to protect the country from a repeat of the near meltdown of our banking system, such as happened in 2008. They wrote and passed legislation that clearly required interpretation and conversion into actual regulations. Then they purposely gutted the federal agencies who were supposed to do the job, leaving the implementation of a very complex and complicated law to three thirty-somethings who never held any responsible position in the banking business.
Again, I guess they think no one has noticed. Better yet, how many of the 535 do you think have really noticed...or care?