100 Things I Hate About Government
Starting with John Stoessel's "100 things that I hate about government," I've taken his list and modified it to suit. You know, sadly the government is made up of people and therefore just reflects "us" with all of our problems and beliefs. Add the problem that money has corrupted too many in our government. Furthermore, groups will always perform poorly compared to individuals. At the end of day, however, the collective "we" is the real problem.
There are far too many idiots in this country who are poorly educated, aren't being properly parented, and haven't been schooled well in general or in the fundamental aspects of American history and our political history. How many school districts, for instance, are teaching the incontrovertible fact that our country's Founding Fathers were nearly obsessed with limiting Federal power in favor of The States? Knowledge of the unique American political history and our American ideals do not run in our blood. They have to be taught. Sadly, too many are ignorant of our historic strengths and they are everywhere, including our government. These very people are eager to move our country toward what's been proven to fail elsewhere in the world. But I digress.
Here's my list:
Inability to get money out of politics; failure to pass campaign finance reform
"Comprehensive anything" from Washington!
Massive failure of government management and oversight of existing programs, and continuing to start yet more programs!
Government employing 22 million people
Creation of the Government-Industrial-Military complex that Eisenhower warned
Creating the cartel status of the biggest banks, drug and health care companies
NSA spying and excessive secrecy
16 Federal "intelligence" agencies at a cost of $120 billion per year. How "intelligent" is that?
The Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve promoting massive moral hazard
"Money printing"
Zero interest policy still ongoing for 5 years
The dual mandate of the Federal Reserve (full employment, control inflation) leading to 24 fold increase in prices since it's inception. Get rid of the "full employment" portion of mandate.
IRS feeding info to liberal groups
Dictating where kids must go to school
Dictating what kids should learn
Department of Education which does no educating.
Department of Agriculture which should be re-named to Department of Food Stamps
Department of "Energy" which creates no energy and could be renamed to Department of Loans to Political Cronies
Department of Homeland "Security" which is just another waste of money and annoyance
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Trillion dollar deficits
Spiraling social security disability enrollment with questionable causes
Unnecessary or disastrous wars
Taking almost half our money
Our broken legal system
Creating the biggest prison population in the world: the US has 50% of the world's prisoners and only 5% of the world population!
EEOC Racial and Gender disparity suits
Asset forfeiture laws and abuse
Abusive eminent domain
Arbitrary and excessive jail sentences and mandatory minimum sentences
Student Loan bubble
Enslaving millions of young people in college tuition debt!
Having 175,000 pages of laws, always adding more regulations, expecting people to understand these laws
Obama hurting "rule of law" by selective law enforcement and trying to circumvent Congress
Saying not knowing the law is no excuse
Selective racist enforcement
Cops arresting people who videotape them
Always passing new law without removing old ones
Always growing faster than inflation plus population growth
Funding $100 million trips to Africa
Wrecking Indians lives
Wrecking, not always helping, African American lives
Using junk science...promising zero risk
Promoting moral hazard
Fighting the privatizing of roads and air traffic control
Sarbanes Oxley
Laws against so-called price "gouging"
Claiming K-12 education is starved for money
Creating and failing to repeal ethanol mandates when they are causing more harm than good
Labeling carbon dioxide a "health hazard" when the current level of 0.04% it's essential to life
Funding Acorn
EPA overreach, stepping on people
Stopping Keystone pipeline because of climate concerns
IRS asking Tea Party groups 85 questions
Drug war(s)
Losing the Drug War(s)
Minimum wage laws
Davis-Bacon giving special deals for unions
Intern rules from Labor Depart
The recent Farm Bill--or the Un-reform of Farm subsidies
Corporate welfare for GE and Gen Motors
Banning alternative currencies
Deficit spending and Entitlement bankruptcy
Mismanagement of Medicare and Medicaid
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
ObamaCare monstrosity that will never be implemented
Inability to take small steps to control medical costs
Not firing anyone
Subsidies for sports stadiums
Indifference to consumers: Post Office, DMV
Pompous ceremonies
Excessive Secret Service protection
Complex tax code
Continuing to post 100,000 soldiers in Germany, Korea and Japan
Rich people getting 3 month trials and poor people get squat
Tariffs
Unnecessary, even harmful, sugar subsidies
Unnecessary, uneconomic, even harmful ethanol subsidies
Banning gay marriage at the Fed level
FCC not auctioning off spectrum
GM bailout and subsequent corporate welfare (they still pay zero Fed taxes)
All of the Bailouts
5 years punished for toy guns
Cafe standards that kill
$17 Trillion debt
Ban of Edison's light bulb
"Free" contraception for all women
Spying on James Rosen and his parents
PBS subsidies
Intrade's disappearance