Small Government, what is that? How about those in charge of the FCC
determined that enforcement was not a priority and diverted those fund
elsewhere. They could decide that enforcement was a priority today and
do something about it. If the "small government" can hire 87k agents
to come after us peons, it could find money to fund enforcement.
When has our government been small in the last 50 years? Never. The US
Government has spent 5 trillion dollars so far this year but we can't
build a border wall, the Pentagon accidentally gave Ukraine 6 billion
dollars and billions and billions of our tax dollars wasted on a myriad
of BS studies, and pork laden projects hidden inside bills that are
1000's of pages long. Maybe some of it could be diverted to the Secret
Service before someone actually gets killed.
The FCC could do a lot of things if it wanted to. It would just have to
be a priority of the administration. These top level bureaucrats seem
to think they have more power than congress. When they sold off all of
the public airwaves what did they do with the money? It certainly was
not put back into enforcement or probably the FCC at all. Even with the
Supreme Court ruling regarding the agencies withing the government,
OSHA, EPA, FCC, et al.... nothing will probably change.
Every chart I can find on gov't spending since WWII shows a pretty steep
climb every year. Terms like small government is just rhetoric to
charge up the voters. The FCC of course would blame the administration
or congress. It is what they do.
Why has the ARRL failed to really lobby congress on this? Does the ARRL
want to become the enforcement arm of the ham bands and get paid for
it? RFI folks at the ARRL are a huge help but there is no outcry about
the continued increase of noise in populated areas all from crap that
does not meet written rules. Why is the FCC not leading the charge
against all these solar companies, bad products that generate all sorts
of crap with their switching supplies etc.
We are not making enough noise (as a body of users of the airwaves) to
get any attention. The same reason it has been hard to get tower
exemptions and antenna exemptions in HOA's. 1 million hams give or take
in the US but most of them are silent.
If you want your blood to really boil, research what happens when the
Feds are called in for big fires.
Mike W0MU
On 7/19/2024 1:10 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 7/19/2024 8:34 AM, David Eckhardt wrote:
At the FCC both enforcement
and OET (Office of Engineering and Technology) has been gutted.
This all happened 40 years ago, thanks to "small government," made
worse by the increased takeover of government by big money and
unlimited contributions to elected officials and those running for
office.
73, Jim K9YC
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