Federal Regulations and Small Towns

When unemployment is reaching heights we have not seen in years, and cities are on the brink of bankruptcy, what is the Obama administration focused on? Street signs. Not the broken ones that need to be replaced, but all of them, even if they are brand new. The reason? Most of them are written in all caps and according to the new 800 page book of Uniform Traffic Control Devices signs in ALL CAPS are not good enough anymore. In places like Dinwiddie County, VA there are not many people, if any, complaining about not being able to read the street signs, but they still must comply with the federal regulations. This is a great example of federal overreach into decisions that are best made by local governments...more

The author points out there are people outside the federal government who support this. Would that be safety experts or parents? No.

"3M, the company that will make the reflective material that is now required on all street signs in the United States by 2018 fought hard for these regulations.

Businesses, supposedly advocates of the free enterprise system, constantly lobby for regulations which create a mkt. for their product or limit competition from other producers. All the enemies of the free market aren't on the left.