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> “I’m not necessarily in favor of rolling back a lot of federal regulations,” said Ms. Ten Eyck, a Democrat who serves on her local town board. “I’m in favor o
by org3432 9y ago
> “I’m not necessarily in favor of rolling back a lot of federal regulations,” said Ms. Ten Eyck, a Democrat who serves on her local town board. “I’m in favor of applying them intelligently.”
So the apple farmer makes sense, why not do that?
- dsfyu404ed 9y ago>why not do that? Because "applying intelligently" obviously means "applying them selectively at the discretion of whoever's doing the enforcing".
- org3432 9y ago> Mr. Ten Eyck says the requirement was “ridiculous” in practice — the equivalent of finding an earring in the orchard — so Indian Farms came up with an alternative to scouring the orchard every morning. “We have trained the guys only to grab the rails of the ladder,” he said. My interpretation is getting to the same result more efficiently, not selectively applying based on that quote.