Cass Ballenger: “if we needed another example of how this President changes characters faster than Rich Little, here it is: A year ago…”

“if we needed another example of how this President changes characters faster than Rich Little, here it is: A year ago President Clinton put on his regulatory reform-er costume. He said that he wanted to give small businesses a break against agencies like OSHA, which were more interested in collecting penalties than in getting things fixed. In fact these are his words exactly, when he dressed up like someone sympathetic to small business: Enforcers will be given authority to waive up to 100 percent of punitive fines for small businesses so that a business person who acts in good faith can put his energy into fixing the problem, not fighting with the regulator. In other words, if they want to spend the fine money fixing the problem, better they should keep it and fix the problem than give it to the Government. But now the President is wearing another costume. It's his reelection costume, and it's paid for by people who don't want regulatory reform and who could care less bout small business.”