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Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Changing Plans of Leviathin Government Monday Edition

Jimmie | August 22, 2011 | Comments (0)

In one of his speeches that weren’t in any way campaign speeches, so you just put that thought right out of your head, President Obama suggested to a farmer that he should contact the USDA with his concerns about a number of coming regulations. See, the farmer had heard — and don’t ask me where he got this silly idea — that the Obama administration might just issue their regulations without any concern for how large an impact they would have on the economy, especially his economy.

Well, a reporter from Politico took the President’s advice and called the USDA. The results were, well, inconclusive. After two days of being transferred from bureaucrat to bureaucrat and hearing several variants on “That’s not my job. Call this person.”, the reporter finally got something like an answer. And EPA spokesman sent her an e-mail that said the agency had “no plans to put stricter standards into place”. That’s hardly a comfort to the farmer, or anyone else whose businesses would be crippled by more restrictive EPA regulations. See “no plans” doesn’t mean “we absolutely won’t”. Plans change.

Hey, wouldn’t that make a great motto for this administration? I don’t think you could get one that would describe the capricious nature of our government right now that’s better.

And now, links!

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