GOVERNMENT AT WORK:

 

Democrats moved to exempt the Postal Service from having to make $4 billion in payments due next week to cover retirement health benefits for its employees. The unions are very grateful.

 

The good news is:  The equivalent of 150 million to 250 million barrels of oil and natural gas have been discovered in an undisclosed part of Kern County, California. The biggest find in 35 years. The bad news is: The Senate has voted against an attempt by Republicans to keep in place a plan by the Bush administration to allow oil and gas drilling along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

 

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has told Tennessee gun dealers to disregard a state statute that exempts firearms made and sold inside Tennessee from federal gun laws and registration. Hey, what about the 10th Amendment?

 

The bureaucrats at the FDA are also working hard on our behalf. Americans may rest easy knowing that the Food and Drug Administration has banned candy and/or fruit cigarettes. Whew.

 

Though the $787 billion 'stimulus' package has done nothing to help the economy, it has certainly stimulated the government agencies that are hiring thousands of (government) workers and spending millions of dollars to oversee and implement the package.

 

A fund-raiser for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, has been indicted for defrauding B of A, HSBC and Citigroup Inc out of more than $290 million in loan proceeds. I'm sure you heard it here first.

OF INTEREST:

 

Now days, being homeless is more competitive than ever. Only the most clever and creative signs are going to get people to let go of their precious spare change

Obama loves to hear himself talk – about himself. In just 41 speeches so this year, Obama has talked about himself nearly 1,200 times – 1,198 to be exact.

 

The foreign-born dropped from 12.6% in 2007 to 12.5%, according to Census data out Monday. The share had been rising every decade since 1970, when it hit a low of 4.7%.

 

As populations around the world age, governments are increasingly being confronted with the taboo idea of dying as something people can volunteer to do.

 

Seventy-seven percent (77%) of U.S. voters say that they prefer a free market economy over a government-managed economy. That’s up seven points since December.

 

57% of Americans say the government is trying to do too many things that should be left to businesses and individuals, and 45% say there is too much government regulation of business.

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