by News Staff | Oct 20, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
One federal judge called it an example of George Orwell’s “1984”. Scary book if you’ve never read it. Predictions of deep invasion of our lives by government. An Associated Press story heralded the advent of invasion. Seems a Middle Eastern man...
by News Staff | Oct 15, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
The more we examine the workings of our governments – mostly state and federal – the more we see the real picture. The laws that govern our lives mostly come from how much money special interests give to legislators. One of our listeners recently shared...
by News Staff | Oct 12, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
A true sign of the times – Foreclosure Fairs??!! Yep. A group called Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, a non-profit, held Foreclosure Fairs in Los Angeles and Sacramento so far. 40,000 people showed up in L.A. They call it a “Save the...
by News Staff | Oct 8, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
One more comment about New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. He has nailed what’s wrong. One of his latest columns caused a stir when he said that debt ad bloated government are “symptoms of a country in a state of incremental decline and losing its...
by News Staff | Oct 5, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Most of us have no clue what the federal government does with our money. The group, Citizens Against Government Waste try to keep track. They issue annual Pig Books, as they call them. They list pork barrel expenses approved by Congress and the Senate. We will name...
by News Staff | Oct 1, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
You can imagine the looks of horror on the faces of the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom staff when we reached for the Los Angeles Times Wednesday. Yes, we still read actual newspapers – the ones made of actual paper pages that you turn with your hands. You can smell...
