As with motherhood and apple pie, both of the major parties in Washington pay lip service to America\u2019s proud tradition of independent small business, historically the creator of the majority of American jobs.<\/p>\n
But just as the veil was lifted from the isolated, cocooned world in which our rulers live when a photo opportunity once took President George H.W. Bush to a supermarket — where he responded with the delight of a little boy at what appears to have been his first exposure to a bar-code price scanner — our rulers seem honestly puzzled that their actions continue to destroy the very thing they claim to want to \u201cstimulate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Too much regulation? What ever can you mean?<\/p>\n
Ask little Julie Murphy, age 7, who departed in tears when county health inspectors shut down her lemonade stand at a local monthly arts fair in Oregon this month, threatening her with a $500 fine for operating without a restaurant license. (What? No demand for a federal taxpayer ID number? Proof of liability insurance? Compliance with lead-testing requirements on paper cups handed to fellow children?)<\/p>\n
The Department of Energy banned multi-outlet shower heads this spring, because they \u201cwaste water.\u201d (Is it the federal government\u2019s water?) Even if these units were manufactured overseas, someone presumably hoped to recoup what was invested in inventing the things, while other Americans stood to keep their jobs delivering them by truck, stocking store shelves, and ringing them up on cash registers.<\/p>\n
Oh well. Go file for some of those \u201cforever\u201d unemployment checks.<\/p>\n
Small businesses refuse to expand, invest or hire for fear of looming tax hikes. Legislative leaders including Nevada\u2019s Steven Horsford respond that hundreds of millions in new taxes will be needed to \u201cplug budget deficits.\u201d<\/p>\n
After all, they can\u2019t cut spending. Wherever could they cut?<\/p>\n
Why, the fact that Clark County schools will shift back from year-round schools to nine-month scheduled next year means 20,000 low-income children will no longer have free or reduced price breakfasts and lunches subsidized for them by the taxpayers, moans Mr. Horsford.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s going to happen for three months for students who are living in poverty and going hungry?\u201d asks Tim Adams, principal of the year-round Bell Elementary School near Sahara and Interstate 15.<\/p>\n
Um, just guessing here, but maybe they should be fed by … their parents?<\/p>\n
Isn\u2019t First Lady Michelle Obama now on a crusade to fight childhood obesity? Are we under the impression that\u2019s caused by the total of absence of food in American cupboards and refrigerators? In a nation full of cell phones, flat-screen TVs, and shiny new SUVs?<\/p>\n
But never fear! The U.S. Department of Agriculture already provides $1.3 million in tax money for free summer kiddie meals in Nevada, including $669,432 for Clark County. And more summer \u201cfeeding sites\u201d are planned!<\/p>\n
True, there are always a few emergency cases, where parents fail in their custodial duties. Such cases should be referred to traditional private charities. But at the risk of stating the obvious, the Founders promised us a small central government of limited powers. It was not set up to feed our children, ever — let alone at a time when the federal government borrows 41 cents of every dollar it spends, placing our economy on the brink of collapse.<\/p>\n
Nor were the public schools set up to be one-stop soup kitchens.<\/p>\n
How many of these free meals go the children of illegal aliens who shouldn\u2019t be here in the first place? Our bureaucrats refuse to even try to get us a count.<\/p>\n
And as bureaucrats at all levels unanimously moan that they\u2019re understaffed and overworked, where did they find two — two — health inspectors to send little Julie Murphy home in tears?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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