Thursday, June 11, 2009

Congress & Administration Take More Corporate Control

Sherrod lite, George Voinovich, voted with Brown to grab more federal power over business. It's easy to do, because it's all for the children.

Historic anti-smoking vote to give FDA new power
The legislation, one of the most dramatic anti-smoking initiatives since the U.S. surgeon general's warning 45 years ago that tobacco causes lung cancer, would give the Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate the content, marketing and advertising of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
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Obama's signature would then add tobacco to other huge, nationally important areas that have come under greater government supervision since his presidency began. Those include banking, housing and autos. Still to come, if Congress can agree: health care.

June 11 Declaration of Independence

1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.

They should sue the current administration for stomping on it.

Sotomayor & Specter Backgrounder




In some of the greatest dramas the background supports the dialogue.

Game Over, Obama Wins?

Great, a new generation of bureaucrats. Who needs bullets, guns and missiles when you have an army of bureaucrats, boots and pencils on the ground, already in place?

College grads shun Wall Street for Washington...

Yep, having worked there I am more than aware of the bureaucratic mentality and what is actually produced as opposed to all the good-feel talk of helping the nation.

Did I say produced? What is produced kills an entire forest every day to fill page after page after page with crap. A more apt application would be to cut to the chase and just make toilet paper the first time around.