Dull Geek: Perspective

Friday, July 10, 2009

Perspective

Previously, I tried to paint a picture of how President Obama's spending cuts sounded big, but weren't really. I think I did ok. But in comparison to this, I failed miserably.

And this

1 comment:

Andrew said...: Hello,

Could you please contact me ASAP at andrew.j.kirell.-nd@abc.com?

A producer from ABC News' Stossel Unit would like to get in touch with you, regarding a comment you posted on Stossel's blog.

-AK; 7/13/2009 11:47:00 AM

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The United States Code -- containing federal statutory law -- is more than 50,000 pages long and comprises 40 volumes. The Code of Federal Regulations, which indexes administrative rules, is 161,117pages long and composes 226 volumes.

No one on Earth understands them all, and the potential interaction among all the different rules would choke a supercomputer. This means, of course, that when Congress changes the law, it not only can't be aware of all the real-world complications it's producing, it can't even understand the legal and regulatory implications of what it's doing.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds