GOVERNMENT GONE WILD

Insanity in government at all levels has now become the norm. Just one mornings news illustrates this perfectly.

1. Martha Boneta, a Virginia small farmer, is fined $5,000 for having 8 ten year olds at a birthday party on her farm without having a permit for an "event". Then they fined her another $5k for hosting a pumpkin carving event for kids back in October. Sounds unbelievable doesn't it? See here:
http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/13/virginia-farmer-party-tomatoes-fined

2. PETA has succeeded in forcing the federal government to stop using chimps in medical research. So what are they doing with them? Sending over 100 of them into a 200 acre Chimp Haven park, where they will be cared for, including....wait for it.....live band events. At a cost of $13,000 each per year. That's your tax money, people.

3. A Philadelphia 5th grader searched, berated, humiliated in front of her class, and suspended, for having a piece of paper that was torn in the shape of a pistol. This is a stretch in itself, see the picture and story here:
http://www.inquisitr.com/492410/paper-gun-at-school-prompts-suspension-of-philadelphia-girl/ 

All this in just one morning's news. Add in the Supreme Court's decision upholding a Connecticut city's "right" to confiscate private property to build, not a highway or utility right of way, but a mall. Because they'll get more tax money from a mall than private homes. 30 armed IRS agents raiding a small Arkansas bottling company and holding all the employees hostage  AT GUNPOINT for several hours, the kid drug from elementary school in handcuffs and expelled because his mother put a butterknife in his bagged lunch so he could spread peanut butter or something on his sandwich, the Idaho couple fined thousands of dollars PER DAY for attempting to build a house on their lot, which was in the middle of a development, and never designated as any kind of protected wetland, and on and on and on and on. Hundreds of cases of idiocy perpetrated by government employees of one sort or another. (Yes, I consider school employees to be government employees, your taxes pay 100% of education costs.)

How in God's name did we get here? Do you have to flunk an IQ test to get a government job? How have we gotten to the point where extremism is normal and common sense is so uncommon it's remarkable?

Dumb Farmer