The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. – F.A. Hayek
Posted in Government Gone Wild, Politics on Jul 15th, 2011
The following bar chart demonstrates the spending levels of the various federal agencies between 2006 and last year. Over that time, federal expenditures increased from $2.66 trillion to $3.72 trillion, an increase of over 40%. During this time period, prices rose by about 8% and population rose by about 3.5%, so in real per capita [...]
Posted in Government Gone Wild, Paternalism on Jul 14th, 2011
And then they came for … YOUR children. HT to the indomitable Radley Balko. Here is the last episode in the series.
Posted in Government Gone Wild, Regulation on Jul 12th, 2011
In this week’s episode of the Economic Apocalypse, via Popehat via Coyote: You may think that your child care center can determine by itself which toys to stock, and that maybe you’ll supplement it with donations. Once again, you’re wrong. The CDHS knows, down to the number of paintbrushes and the type and number of [...]
Posted in Government Gone Wild, Special Privilege on Jul 9th, 2011
Just another day of the cops protecting the people: And what happened to this cop? 250 pound Anthony Abbate beats the daylights out of a 125 pound female bartender because she refused to serve him due to his drunkenness? He got a slap on the wrist. And oh yeah, the video forgets to tell us [...]
Posted in Government Gone Wild, Special Privilege on Jul 5th, 2011
Don’t you just love it when government agencies are threatened with outright budget cuts, or reductions in the rate of increase in their program budgets? I don’t, and here is why. Every single time I see this happening, whether it be at the school district level or at the state level or at the national [...]
Posted in Government Gone Wild on Jun 28th, 2011
Being protected and served again: Appearing in federal court in Greenbelt, Sinisa Simic, 25, of Woodbridge, Va. pleaded guilty to four of 22 criminal charges he faced in connection with a widespread federal corruption investigation that has already resulted in a guilty plea from former Prince George’s County ExecutiveJack B. Johnson. … To protect themselves during [...]
Posted in Government Gone Wild on Jun 26th, 2011
The NY Department of Education granted $5 million to Herbert Lehman High School so that they could finally construct a football field that their team could play on. The problem, you see, was that their field was only 80 yards. So, they had to play all of their games on the road, even though they [...]
Posted in Government Gone Wild on Jun 19th, 2011
And then they came for the lemonade stands: First, the basics: On Thursday, the first day of the Open, a cameraman from WUSA (Channel 9) captured a county inspector attempting to shut down a roadside stand manned by a half-dozen adorable children. They didn’t have a vendor’s permit, the inspector informed the moms. The result? [...]
Posted in Environment, Government Gone Wild, Politics on Jun 15th, 2011
Having nearly finished Rachel Carson’s classic work, Silent Spring, I am almost apoplectic that some of it has been so thoroughly ignored by those of us who understand that the state is often bumbling, misinformed, bought, corrupt, incompetent, etc. Perhaps the only difference between the Ecologists like Carson and folks like me is not in [...]
Posted in Government Gone Wild, Health Care on Jun 3rd, 2011
In this week’s edition of “Health Care is Not About Health Care,” Megan McArdle describes another surprising ObamaCare outcome: (ObamaCare’s high risk pools) signed up just 18,000 people as of March … It was estimated by Medicare’s Chief Actuary that around 400,000 would sign up … What are the requirements for getting into those high [...]
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