My rebellious side is going to have to say yes to this loaded and misleading question. Even though every fiber in my being does not trust any group of people that think they are superior to others, I have some sort of trust that someone somewhere will do the right thing. After all, if we didn't have some regulations about how we live there would still be those people saying, "No one is going to tell me that I can't own a slave," or "No one's going to tell me I can't strip mine public land and take away that mountain to sell as aggregate for my own profit." Well, at least people can't say they can legally own their own slaves anymore, at least I don't know anyone who can. The problem with this question is that it doesn't specify what the bureaucrats are regulating and for what reason. It's easy to drum up anti-regulation feelings in this country. Who really wants some suit telling them what they can or can't do? Who really even trusts their government anymore? But instead of drumming up anti-regulation emotions, I wish we could focus the light on what regulations we're talking about and why.
I guess I should have answered this question with a resounding no, because just about every agency within the government that has the power to regulate has its price, and the people who have the most to lose from those regulations have paid their money, in cash, to own each and every one of those agencies, all the way up to the secretaries who run them, the secretary of state, the secretary of treasury, the FDA, the EPA and so on and so forth. The thing is, Iwant to have trust in meaningful regulations, I want to know that selfish and self absorbed ego maniacs can't say that they can dump their poisons wherever they want, exploit workers for whatever they want to pay for their labor, or corrupt the system further by using the law to protect their selfish interests and absurdities of excess. In the end I guess it's more like a leap of faith in that the true criminals of this society, like the AIGs, the Bank of Americas, the Black Waters, the Exons, and the huge list of bloated fat cats of the world, will eventually pay up and be regulated into submission, taken down off their ultra fascist ivory towers that they have built off of the betrayal of the hopes and dreams of the working poor, of the betrayal of the American dream. To say the least, it is a huge leap of faith, one that will most likely end in disappointment every time I take a look at someone like the current secretary of the treasury, or watch as a small business owner is put out of business, while the corporate entity moves in and replaces them.