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From The Edge of Sequestration – About Those Job Cuts…

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We’ve been warned of tainted food as the FDA furloughs workers, thinning ranks as border agents get let go, and fewer Federal prosecutors, and don’t forget about those FAA employees that have to be let go. So why, in the age of sequesteria, has the Federal Government posted job opening to fill 2,596 positions in just the past ten days? [ Read more ]

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Guess the USDA doesn’t like contrarian points of view left in comments on their blog

December 14, 2012

USDA: Americans aren’t doing what they’re told Well, that was the headline of a post over at the Washington Examiner.  Any combination of a Federal agency and words intimating that our Overlords ain’t happy with what their subjects are doing with “their” suggestions ABSOLUTELY gets my attention: When Americans go to the grocery store, they [ Read more ]

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Microcosm of Nanny State Failure: School Lunch

September 25, 2012

Being programmed by the state has finally hit kids where they live–in the stomach.  And there is an important lesson to be learned if the kids and their stomachs are listening.  That lesson is this: Federal mandates apply force, limit choices, and result in waste, and that is exactly what has happened thanks to Michelle [ Read more ]

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Federal Mandate Drives Up School Lunch Prices in Merrimack NH

July 20, 2012

Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch.  And it wont be just Merrimack, New Hampshire.  The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 Federal mandate essentially implemented price controls everywhere School lunch is served to fund free lunch, based on federal guidelines, decided on for everyone, by a few hundred Democrats, [ Read more ]

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