I’m working on a book–actually 3. No not the one on Afghanistan–that’s almost finished. No, Janet and I are writing 3 quick to market books to focus thoughts for the election, sourced by blog and internet research. Here’s the idea–little examples that point out how truly bad our government has become–hopefully funny or OMG I can’t believe it’s really real ones. Give me examples–I’ll credit you in the footnotes! Here are the books.

“Resolved: Congress shall pass no really stupid laws”. Stuff passed by Congress, or regulations, or state, or local laws, ordinances, regulations that just are stupid or that should have gone away with a long time ago. Paul Dickson wrote a book like this called “The Official Rules” in 1978. Ronald Reagan read some really silly ones. I remember the OSHA regulation, which stated that “Wet manure is slippery”. Or the Helium Reserve for airships, which Reagan thought should have been done away with in 1980 but which lasted well into the 90s–and then was sold off for balloons at a price much less than cost.

“Money for Nothing”. How the government wastes, steals, gives away, or just flushes our hard earned money down the toilet” Give us the most absurd bridges to nowhere, tread-milling shrimp, or sexually active rats on cocaine. And of course how politicians steal elections to obtain the power to steal our money.

“Creeping Tyranny”. Not so funny, here are examples of how the government has limited our liberties–often in the name of protecting our rights, security, health, or welfare. Again, examples from the last 20 years, please.