A Government Created By Geniuses Run By Idiots!

Editor's Note:  The list below was provided by Dan Mitchell on his International Liberty website.  Before plowing into this you may wish to start with this commentary: Thanks to these Horror Stories of Stupidity and Incompetence, Prepare to Downgrade Your Opinion of Big Government.

• The EEOC making it hard for trucking companies to weed out drunk drivers.
• The EEOC telling a coffee shop it had too many attractive waitresses.
• The EEOC forcing companies to make special accommodations for “pee-shy” employees.
• The EEOC trying to give special employment rights to crooks.
• The EEOC sued a trucking company that dismissed Muslim drivers who refused to deliver alcohol.
• The EEOC was slapped down by the courts after trying to block employers from doing criminal background checks, even though the EEOC also conducts such checks.
• Putting a store out of business for selling toy guns.
• Regulations making it difficult for trucking firms to weed out drunk drivers.
• Year-long sting operations by federal milk police.
• Rules harassing coffee shops with bikini-clad sales staff.
• OSHA requirements for expensive safety harnesses for people working 11 feet off the ground.
• Making banks put foreign law above U.S. law.
• The federal milk police.
• Banning light bulbs.
• Americans spend 8.8 billion hours every year filling out government forms.
• The economy-wide cost of regulation is now $1.75 trillion . (Ed. actually it's now more like 2 trillion)
• For every bureaucrat at a regulatory agency, 100 jobs are destroyed in the economy’s productive sector.
• The Obama Administration added $236 billion of red tape just in 2012.
• HUD engages in racism and social engineering.
• Urban renewal projects destroy neighborhoods and foment corruption.
• HUD subsidies are grotesquely wasteful.
• There are epidemic levels of waste, fraud, and abuse at HUD.

Commentaries by Dan Mitchell worth viewing - actually there are far more, but this is a good start. 

• The Department of Agriculture Is a Welfare Scam
• The State Department’s Refugee Program Shouldn’t be a Terrorist-Funding Welfare Scam
• Shut Down the Department of Education, End Federal Government Involvement and Intervention
• The Department of Agriculture Deserves the Death Penalty
• Repeal the Gas Tax…and Get Rid of the Department of Transportation
• Using Labor Department Data to Indict Obama’s Dismal Performance on Jobs
• A Victory over the Ideological and Tyrannical Thugs at the EPA
• Time to Shut Down the Department of Agriculture

And if there ever was an absolutley firm reason why the IRS needs abolished:

• IRS Commissioner Uses Professional Tax Preparer