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Show fyoj HAVeT TME RIGHT (SPEECH f TO REMAIN I AVLJEPJDSE S CIRCLE , 7 : 7 1 ' HOME OF IKE WHIMPER that p,cM.t " lit 1 " 111 ' i WON'T REUlSU Pickle Regulation? If you like thin pickles and fast ketchup, you're in trouble. Government regulations have outlawed pickle slices that are too thin or too wide, and ketchup that flows faster than nine centimeters in 30 seconds. Those rules are Just two of the 41,000 that regulate the hamburger you may have eaten for lunch. "I sleep so much better at night, knowing that America is protected from thin pickles and fast ketchup," said Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch. Hatch, chairman of the Government Regulation and Paperwork Subcommittee, is co-sponsoring a bill that calls for the review and elimination of regulations that fill no purpose. pur-pose. The bill also requires regulators to seek the perspective perspec-tive of those they regulate. "It's hard to argue with the intent of most regulations, but often their intent and their result are two different things," he said. "We want to get rid of those rules that serve only to stifle business without producing produc-ing any worthwhile results." American business now spends $100 billion a year 1.2 billion working hours complying with government regulations. "Calvin Coolidge said the business of America is business," Hatch said. "It'd be unfortunate to have to say that the business of America is compliance." |