18 • Corporate contractors and interests who want the budget to support a rising S&P Index; • Policy makers, such as the President him- self, who appreciate that we can and should do both. 3. Reinvigorating Faith in The Law Regarding operations or laws, the US govern- ment has governed and managed with increas- ing disregard for the law. Indeed, this is one of the reasons I believe that there is a dangerous effort to change the US Constitution. The logic being: it would be better to tear up the Constitution before US citizens learned that their pensions and health care benefits were not fully funded and then decided to enforce the Constitution. President Trump has forcefully asked why we are not acting in conformance with the law in a number of areas, starting with immigration. Immigration is an example of where he has attempted to close the gap between the law, what is economically sound, and what we are actually doing. As painful as this process is, a society cannot tolerate the growing disassoci- ation between law and practice that we have experienced in recent decades, including in our immigration practices. Nowhere has President Trump’s efforts to rein- vigorate faith in the law had greater impact than in regulatory relief. The Solari Report recently published a review of Patrick Wood’s latest book, Technocracy Rising, about the intentional effort to centralize control through the emergence of a highly complex rules-based system. Many of these rules are implemented in the form of federal regulations and federal man- dates on state and local governments, backed up by an expensive and oppressive system of whistleblowers and “for profit” enforce- ment. The result will create a near impossible operating environment for small businesses and farms. It is fair to say that this legal and regulatory system is in the process of outlawing the economy and forcing many people into the underground economy or to simply shut down. This oppressive blanket of uneconomic rules is one of the reasons the general popula- tion’s dependency on government subsidies is skyrocketing. This has resulted in a growing exhaustion with government and disrespect for the law. Regu- lations that lack any sense of proportion or an economic pathway to achieving a desired result ultimately destroy both the economy and any respect for the rule of law. Dr. Joseph Farrell told me recently about a thriving small hospital in Kansas that had to shut down as a result of Obamacare. Now, the townspeople must drive an hour to the nearest hospital. Think of the jobs destroyed and the lives lost to serve the arrogance of centraliza- tion and a 2,000+ page bill that no one had read before it was passed into law. This is one of thousands of examples why the President has given the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare such a high priority. The transgender bathroom policy is another example. I may believe that a given policy for bathroom use is desirable. However, local may- ors, principals, and business proprietors can figure out what is optimal in their locations without receiving dictates from Washington. The cost of bathroom monitoring and enforce- ment from Washington DC is not economic in a society with urgent priorities that the US government must address. How could a large and highly diverse country afford to spend time and money on centralized bathroom enforcement? It can’t. The notion reflects a complete breakdown of the legal system and suggests a society that has lost its mind from decades of subsidized government capital. When the new Attorney General rescinded the Obama administration initiative that directs schools regarding transgender bathroom use, a huge sigh of relief was felt throughout the heartland of America. The legal system was starting to move back towards the sensible and feasible. III. Administration Report Card for The First 70 Days