[dfwgator]

And if you believe that, I have some swampland in Florida to sell you.

[JudgemAll]

Enforcement has gone a bit down in my local areas, but sheer regulation increase and encroachment means that the government has a de-facto hand in every freaking private budget out there and control over it.

This article is complete horse crap indeed. The government has lost all cautiousness it was intended to exercise. It can overnight decide to take everything over under any pretext already in the books.

[Purrcival]

Thanks for all of the replies. The only reason I posted this is that I’m in a debate with my nephew, who’s a Sophomore in college. He posted a link to this article on Facebook with a snarkey comment like, “And here I though Obama was supposed to have increased the size of government”. He got mad when at my initial response: “BWAH-HAHAHAHAHAA! In what alternate universe does this even BEGIN to be true? When I finish reading (and chuckling over) this article, I’ll be tempted to contact the author and ask him to step outside and tell me what color his sky is and how many suns does he see.” He accused me of making an ad hominem attack. I told him that was my INITIAL response, but it really appeared to irritate him that I was not just swallowing this gem from The New York Times. I gave him one of the links in this thread, and he dismissed it as being from a “right-wing blog”.

Looking for all the ammo you can give me.

Thanks!