U.S. Government Bureaucracy

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Pythagorean theorem................................................24 words.

Lord's prayer..............................................................66 words.

Archimedes' Principle................................................67 words.

10 Commandments...................................................179 words.

Gettysburg address...................................................286 words.

Declaration of Independence....................................1,300 words.

US Constitution with all 27 Amendments..................7,818 words.

US Government regulations on sale of cabbage......26,911 words.

I guess cabbage must really be complicated....

Rand Paul Smackdown!

Obama Chief of Staff Says he Can't Defend Obamanomics

by Ed Morrissey

White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley took heat from business executives Thursday for the Obama administration’s regulatory expansions. Daley also said he didn’t have any good answers for some of what President Obama is doing and expressed frustration about the “bureaucratic stuff that’s hard to defend.”

“Sometimes you can’t defend the indefensible,” Daley said at a National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) meeting.

Daley couldn’t answer basic questions and continually faced criticism from the executives in the room. The business leaders even applauded each other’s criticism of the administration. “At one point, the room erupted in applause when Massachusetts utility executive Doug Starrett, his voice shaking with emotion, accused the administration of blocking construction on one of his facilities to protect fish, saying government ‘throws sand into the gears of progress....’”

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