Martha Roby: “Absolutely. You know, when you talk to business owners, or at least when I have, you'll hear them say, but there was a…”

“Absolutely. You know, when you talk to business owners, or at least when I have, you'll hear them say, but there was a time when regulators came into your business to try to make it more effective or a safer environment in which to work, but that time is long gone. Now the regulators are there to find problems and fine you. I want to give you one example that was astounding to me. A fellow that's in the construction business was explaining to me that he had a friend that's a roofer that had a $700 job, to make a $700 profit on a roofing job. His crew was over there at this home all day long, had the ladder, they were going up and down. After 5 o'clock, a regulator was driving down the road, pulled over and noticed that he was afraid the ladder didn't come over the eave of the roof just far enough to fit within the regulatory requirements. {time} 2020 He stopped and wrote that fellow up to the tune of $8,000. A $700 job and an $8,000 fine. These guys had been going up and down that ladder all day. We all agree that not every regulation is bad, but this is an environment that has gotten out of hand; people with too much time on their hands and not coming into businesses in the spirit of helping businesses thrive.”