Government Stealth

The New Year begins with a reach by government bureaucracy in unprecedented manners. The EPA has claimed the power to regulate all green house gases, especially carbon dioxide. It apparently has pledged to follow Obama the candidate's promise to bankrupt the coal industry. The EPA has also claimed power to determine Texas's premitting process. This is not just the Federal Government encroaching on states rights again, this is a bureaucracy encroaching on states rights . This is highly unconstitutional. But hold on, there is more. The FCC has claimed the right to regulate the internect -- the so called net neutrality issue; homeland security via the TSA has claimed the right to undertake search and seizures as it sees fit; Medicare has instituted an end of life counseling -- so-called death panels; and on and on. The next two years will be the greatest growth of bureacratic power grabbing in the history of the U.S. The Republican Congress must push for Congressional oversight; it must quit making itself irrelevant. The States must join Texas and demand a move back to more states' rights.

As Pratt notes, government stealth is a real danger. Also as Pratt notes, the TSA is incentivizing its employees to become more invasive.