The Obama administration turned down using Dutch oil skimmers because they couldn’t meet our stringent government environmental<\/em> regulations on how pure the decontaminated water was that they dumped back into the Gulf of Mexico, right on-sight of the spill.\u00a0 Instead, we transport the oily water to facilities and decontaminate it there.\u00a0 Huge<\/em> efficiency drop during a major catastrophe because, ironically, of environmental regulations<\/em>.\u00a0 Read the whole article<\/a> for more things we turned down that could have averted a lot of this problem.<\/p>\n Our own Treasury Secretary is ignorant of economic history.\u00a0 Timothy Geithner said this at the latest G-20 summit:\u00a0 “One of the mistakes made in the 1930s was that countries pulled back their recovery efforts too soon, prolonging the Great Depression.”\u00a0 However, precisely the opposite happened.\u00a0 Recovery efforts failed, lasted too long, and that’s<\/em> what prolonged the Great Depression.\u00a0 NewsBusters has the charts.<\/a><\/p>\n School vouchers improve graduation rates.<\/a> Now we have a government study to prove what common sense already told us.<\/p>\n Sharia Law in the UK<\/a>:\u00a0 Dogs barred from buses so as not to offend Muslims.<\/p>\n Democrats have decided that there will be no budget this year<\/a>.\u00a0 Hey, at least (this time) they’re being honest about it.\u00a0 I guess they’ll just spend until it doesn’t feel good anymore.\u00a0 Or until they’re voted out.\u00a0 Whichever comes first.<\/p>\n In Venezuela’s socialist paradise, the government’s Food Ministry rounds up 120 tons of rice because it might be sold above regulated prices.\u00a0 At the same time, 80,000 tons of food was found rotting in government warehouses.\u00a0 Government efficiency<\/a> at its finest.<\/p>\n Another example of bait-and-switch<\/a> in the passage of ObamaCare.\u00a0 Obama rejected the idea that the individual mandate was a tax increase, but in defending it from state lawsuits, the administration does<\/em> classify it as a tax increase.\u00a0 This way, the mandate falls under a law that forbids the states from interfering in tax collections.\u00a0 In addition<\/a>, “an early draft of an administration regulation estimates … a majority of workers\u201451 percent\u2014will be in plans subject to new federal requirements….”<\/p>\n If your 11-year-old asks a particular Massachusetts school for a condom, they’ll get it<\/a>, no questions asked.\u00a0 Also, parents objections will not be taken into consideration.\u00a0 Actually, there’s no real age limit on the policy; any<\/em> kid can get one.\u00a0 Only in Massachusetts.\u00a0 For now.<\/p>\n And finally, all that hard work pays off, but not the way you thought it would.\u00a0 (From Chuck Asay.\u00a0 Click for a larger version.)<\/p>\n
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