Speaking of Ronnie, he said (some years after creating the CARB by combining the already existing Bureau of Air Sanitation and Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board into one all-powerful entity),
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth”
I'm not sure if he was talking about what he had wrought, but CARB has nearly limitless power to mandate whatever they want, without the usual checks and balances imposed on democratic governments. It is the very embodiment of what Mr. Ragan was talking about.