| | Professor Machan wrote this article in January, 2006.
In 2008 Sunstein wrote "Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness" where he argues that people make poor choices in "...education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, happiness, and even the planet itself" and that government needs to "nudge" them towards better decisions with regulations.
In 2009, Obama appointed Cass Sunstein his 'regulatory czar' - i.e., to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) - the single most important office in the administration regarding the regulations implemented across all agencies. The Senate confirmed him in 2009 with a 57 to 40 vote. (He left the office last August).
Today's governmental processes consist of thousands of pages of non-objective laws passed by representatives that haven't even read them, whereupon they are used to generate tens of thousands of pages of regulations... or should we say "nudges", where each nudge also acts as a reminder that the constitution is no longer seen as a limit on government.
This is the heart of the progressive's secret march towards socialism.
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[Note: Just a tip of the hat to irony: OIRA, which is within the Office of Management and Budget, is a part of the office of the President - who does little that is recognizable as managing the out of control federal government, and is clearly not competent at budgeting either. The office was created by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 - Honest! And it appears to have acquired its powers by Executive Order. No one could make up stuff like that.]
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