It’s all about elimination of all federal regulations:
Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-FL) Article I Restoration Act, which would sunset all regulations after 3 years.
Require the federal government to have a “yellow pages test.” If a good or service can be found in the
“yellow pages,” government should not be doing it.[14]
Fucking dinosaurs don’t realize that they haven’t even printed a yellow pages in around a decade. Last time I received one it was like 30 pages long for a major city.
Talk about pandering to their elderly base. Most Gen Z probably don’t even know what a “yellow pages” is.
Require the federal government to have a “yellow pages test.” If a good or service can be found in the “yellow pages,” government should not be doing it.[14]
Yes, specifically the business phone book. The residential one was the “white pages” -a weird book that was mysteriously left on your porch every few years where everyone’s home phone (those strange bulky ones that were attached to the wall) and home address was listed. That’s what people mean in old movies when they say “I’m in the book!” It means “You know my name, you can find my phone number if you want to call me.”
I think we got one every year actually at my old rental house. We would get a white and yellow pages. Strangely, yellow pages would shrink every year until around 2012 it was about 30 pages long.
You had to pay to be in the yellow pages, so as googling stuff became the main way to find anything, businesses that weren’t mainly patronized by old people started opting out.
The yellow pages test comes from a dead libertarian Austrian “Economist”. Kinda interesting since he died in 1995 and the school of economics he followed was already obsolete when it came out in the 1930s.
This stuff is part of the reason why age does matter in elected office. People get ideas and they don’t let them go even long after they have been disproven.
It’s all about elimination of all federal regulations:
Fucking dinosaurs don’t realize that they haven’t even printed a yellow pages in around a decade. Last time I received one it was like 30 pages long for a major city.
Talk about pandering to their elderly base. Most Gen Z probably don’t even know what a “yellow pages” is.
the republican party head quarters are on yellowpages.com - i think they should lead by example
what?
I’m agreeing with you - they must be drunk.
That is the dumbest idea I’ve heard today
Of course, they’re all for federal regulations when it comes to limiting transgender people getting medical care.
that’s the phone book right? or is it different
Yes, specifically the business phone book. The residential one was the “white pages” -a weird book that was mysteriously left on your porch every few years where everyone’s home phone (those strange bulky ones that were attached to the wall) and home address was listed. That’s what people mean in old movies when they say “I’m in the book!” It means “You know my name, you can find my phone number if you want to call me.”
white pages would be straight up dangerous in the Internet age
You could get your number “unlisted” for an additional fee. It was still dangerous in the pre-internet age, just not to the extent that it is today.
I think we got one every year actually at my old rental house. We would get a white and yellow pages. Strangely, yellow pages would shrink every year until around 2012 it was about 30 pages long.
You had to pay to be in the yellow pages, so as googling stuff became the main way to find anything, businesses that weren’t mainly patronized by old people started opting out.
The yellow pages test comes from a dead libertarian Austrian “Economist”. Kinda interesting since he died in 1995 and the school of economics he followed was already obsolete when it came out in the 1930s.
This stuff is part of the reason why age does matter in elected office. People get ideas and they don’t let them go even long after they have been disproven.
Play them at their own game by listing a child starving service in the Yellow Pages.
BRB, going to start my own CIA and undercut the original by outsourcing the majority of the work to Bangalore for cheap labour.