[Jeff Higgins]

I think a lot of the anti-gubmint sentiments we see today stem from a mixture of confusion on citizens' part and over reaching on gubmint's part. Citizens are confused over the role gubmint is supposed to fill in our lives. Gubmint has taken advantage of that confusion and has far over stepped its originally intended responsibilities.

Overseeing foreign trade (and interstate trade) is one of the very clearly stated responsibilities of our federal government. Maybe if they stuck a little closer to their job description and didn't stick their noses into things they have no business regulating, things like this would not be chalked up as yet another gubmint intrusion. It appears as though we have reached a point where big gubmint has become so intrusive, that even the things they are supposed to be doing are taken as just another of these meddling busy-body bureaucratic boondoggles. The knee-jerk reaction to any mention of expanding government authority or regulation has become "oh *****, not again". Sometimes it is needed. This is one of those times. Too bad we can't get them to "undo" the vast majority that wre not.