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USDA goes insane – Requires “disaster plan” to relocate pet rabbit during disaster

By Steve McGough / June 30, 2013 /

Symptom of the disease folks. The federal government has gotten so large they are now sending multi-page letters to owners of registered rabbits used during magic shows demanding they provide a detailed disaster plan that would let the government know how the owner is going to help get the rabbit through the disaster.

IRS extravagance: What difference at this point does it make?

By Steve McGough / June 27, 2013 /

I’ve been fighting – what seems to be an ever-long battle – to limit the scope of the federal government to Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. The state and commonwealth governments have the power – as determined by their state legislatures – to provide funding and support for all sorts of programs if the…

IRS not answering Senate Finance Committee questions

By Steve McGough / May 31, 2013 /

The IRS thinks it’s OK to ask conservative and libertarian groups hundreds of questions, yet they ignore Senate Finance Committee questions posed concerning how the department put into place policies targeting groups including local TEA Party organizations.

Symptom of the Disease: Duke Energy writes off $6 million loan guarantee to DNC

By Steve McGough / March 1, 2013 /

President Obama’s political party – the Democrat National Committee – will not repay millions Duke Energy provided to help pay for the September, 2012 Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C.

Culture of corruption: Menendez and free private jet rides to Dominican Republic

By Steve McGough / January 31, 2013 /

What scum. And let me point out if this guy was a Republican I’d be calling him scum too. These are the benefits you get from “friends” when you’re a United States senator. Pure corruption.

Symptom of the Disease: $300 million in earmarks benefit political elite

By Steve McGough / February 7, 2012 /

Wynton Hall over at Big Government points to a Washington Post article posted online yesterday detailing earmark projects that benefited property and business owners who happened to be congress-critters who either sponsored or voted for the earmark.

Symptom of the Disease: Solyndra “spending money left and right”

By Steve McGough / September 22, 2011 /

When – over a period of decades – we allow the federal government to get intimately involved with contracts and government-backed loans for companies like Solyndra in an effort to push worn political and environmental agendas, we’ve got nobody to blame but ourselves.

Effort to make Coltsville a national park is dash for federal cash

By Steve McGough / July 13, 2011 /

It’s not about the designation. The Coltsville district in Hartford, Conn. was pronounced a National Historical Landmark in 2008, and there are now efforts to have the area designated a National Park. You know, similar to Yellowstone.

The federal government is too BIG – hands out $1 BILLION to dead people

By Steve McGough / October 29, 2010 /

They don’t just see dead people, they give them cash, and lots of cash. During the last decade, about $1 billion has been handed out by the federal government to the dead. Subsidies, prescription drugs, wheelchairs, and payments for heating bills are just the start. Medicare even paid $92 million for treatments prescribed by dead physicians.

Symptom of the Disease – DOJ closes investigation on W. Va. Democrat

By Steve McGough / January 26, 2010 /

The most ethical Congress EVAH. After a four year investigation looking into Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) using his position to secure more than $250 million in federal funding for close friends running non-profits, the Department of Justice just closed the investigation with no action.