Perhaps...yet the last 4 yrs have very little to do with what you see as a stifle to your freedom:
"Obama’s W
hite House has approved fewer regulations than his predecessor George W. Bush at this same point in their tenures, and the estimated costs of those rules haven’t reached the annual peak set in fiscal 1992 under Bush’s father, according to government data reviewed by Bloomberg News. "
Obama Wrote 5% Fewer Rules Than Bush While Costing Business - Bloomberg
Though I can agree over regulation does not help industry, I also understand a lack of regulation can be far worse....may I remind you of what led to the last recession?
A simple mind does not notice complexity.
I do believe you will try to find someone in the left press who can refute anything I write. Here is a quote from one study I found:
In its first year, the Bush Administration issued only one major rule that increased regulation. President Obama issued 13 in 2009. President Bush was in his third year before new costs hit $4 billion. President Obama has achieved the same in one year.
Moreover, the reported costs likely underestimate the total cost of new regulation. Costs for many rules, for example, are not quantified. Moreover, the estimates are drawn from analyses produced by the regulators themselves, who have an incentive to minimize the reported costs.
That was written in April 2010.
The One, the Marxist, and his busybody bureaucrats have been hard at it ever since.
Here is another quote:
So far, more than 13,000 pages of federal ObamaCare regulations have been issued, but employers, states, and health companies say they need much more.
One recent rule took 18 pages to define a “full time employee.”
Do you see anything wrong with this picture?
Please tell me what caused the "last" recession, you know, the one we are really still in? I cannot wait to hear the views of one who believes that socialism is a form of capitalism.