POINTS AND FIGURES: Disrupting Government With The DeBlasio Feature.

I have been watching Uber blow up governments all across the world. In France, taxi drivers didn’t like their cartel being upset, and became violent towards Uber cars and drivers. In St. Louis, Ed Domain was almost killed in a taxi cab that had no insurance. He is exposing the taxi cartel for exactly what it is. In NYC, Mayor De Blasio wants to put a cap on Uber growth. Amazingly, even the left wing NY Times disagrees with the Mayor.

Uber took matters into it’s own hands by creating the “De Blasio feature” on it’s app. I think they can take it further and win by utilizing the Phone2Action app that Jeb Ory developed. Jeb is a friend of mine. We met through the University of Illinois entrepreneurial program.

I began reading a book a friend gave me, Freedom From Fear. It’s a historical recounting of the FDR administration. Interesting reading to me from a number of perspectives. For example, FDR used the fireside chat as his medium of expression because at the time all the media outlets were run by conservatives. Of course, today the exact opposite is true-so as a conservative candidate I need to be creative using the internet to get my message out. . . .

When FDR instituted his new programs, he didn’t get rid of many of the old agrarian rules that existed. As we move forward into a new age, it’s important that policy makers get rid of all the old agrarian rules, and most of the industrialized regulations that don’t fit with the way the future economy works. Unfortunately, most regulators and political candidates are stuck in the mud. Like Mayor De Blasio, and candidate Clinton who skewered the gig economy, they are tied to the way things used to be. They are out of touch. It’s important to remember these regulations are not natural laws of man. They are artificial and were written in a time where many of the things we are discovering and innovating around weren’t feasible, or even dreamed about. . . .

Tech initially toppled major corporations. Motorola and Kodak are shells of themselves. Now, technology has the opportunity to eliminate wide swaths of government and all the cronies, cartels, employees and economic imbalances that come with them. As a society, we shouldn’t fight that. We should embrace it. Automation of government will make things cheaper for taxpayers. Elimination of old fashioned out of step government will make things better for society.

Yes, but it will be resisted by those who understand that freedom offers insufficient opportunities for graft.