for 24 hour support, automatic refills, and free home delivery, enroll at purplepill.com. it s the nexium you know, now delivered. home of the government gridlock and paralyzing partisanship. according to our next guest those aren t washington s biggest problems. he says the fatal flaw in our system starts with the incredible amount of old laws that remain on the books. what can ordinary americans what can great politicians do to change it? phillip k. howard lays out what a functional government looks like in his brand-new book the rule of nobody. what do you mean by that title? basically democracy is now run by dead people. all the budgets, most of the budgets, most of the decisions made every day are set forth in millions of words of law that were passed by people wore long
changes be effective, put into play? we all agree i don t care what my philosophy or your philosophy is, we can t get our philosophy through. nothing is politically feasible today. what political scientists the unsustain ability of the decades is going to be feasible. we re going to have a time where we go back, basically remake our system of law, give back real humans the responsibility to run our government. you re talking about another crisis. phillip k. howard thanks so much, the rule of nobody s here. thanks so much. thanks for joining us. your cuff links are nicer than mine. folks in colorado want to legalize marijuana but now that it s legal they re complaining and threatening to sue. wait till you hear why. you filed for your tax refund. how should you spend it? the best deals for the month of april.
environment that respects the rights an beliefs of all individuals. here s one of those stories that will leave you shaking your head. county health inspectors in portland, oregon shut down one entrepreneur s new business because she didn t apply for the necessary permit. the entrepreneur was a 7-year-old girl selling lemonade. we didn t have a vending license. apparently it costs $120 and i didn t know about that. so $120 to sell 50 cent cups of lemonade. they re going to look into changing it so little 7 and 8-year-old kids can have lemonade stands and don t have to worry about being shut down by the government. county officials are looking into fixing this problem. the county chair also telephoned the family to apologize. vending license to sell lemonade? really? do you ever read phillip k. howard s book the death of common sense ? that could be a whole chapter. that really is something. that poor little girl though learned a big lesson.