Oct 24 2011
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“ If you want to have a business in China today, if you want to build a building, you just build it, you don’t go through all the permitting process that we do here.
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GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, getting the facts wrong in her attempt to compare U.S. regulations to those in other countries. According to a 2008 World Bank report, China is one of the most difficult countries in which to obtain construction permits, notes the Los Angeles Times. (via officialssay)
If you want to say something in the Republican party today, you just say it. You don’t have to go through all the research process we do over here.
(via squashed)
Perhaps she meant to say, “If you’re the government of China and you want to build something like a dam that floods out 1 million people, you just build it.” But then, I guess that wouldn’t be a small-government argument.
(via squashed)
