{"id":2636,"date":"2011-02-01T08:18:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T08:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2011-02-01T08:18:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T08:18:22","slug":"a_new_dimension_in_crying_over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2636","title":{"rendered":"A New Dimension In Crying Over Spilled Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell posted an article at <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/ThomasSowell\/2011\/02\/01\/spilled_milk\/page\/full\/\">Townhall.com<\/a>&nbsp;about the Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s decision to get involved in the issue of spilled milk.&nbsp; Yes, you read that right.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article states:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;In a classic example of this process (<\/em>any power given to any bureaucracy for any purpose can be stretched far beyond that purpose)<em>, the EPA has decided that, since milk contains oil, it has the authority to force farmers to comply with new regulations to file &#8220;emergency management&#8221; plans to show how they will cope with spilled milk, how farmers will train &#8220;first responders&#8221; and build &#8220;containment facilities&#8221; if there is a flood of spilled milk.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Why not just call in the local alley cats to lap it up?&nbsp; I apologize.&nbsp; I am not taking this seriously.&nbsp; As part of this new initiative, the EPA will be hiring people to inspect farmers&#8217; reports and prosecute farmers who do not fully comply with the new regulations.&nbsp; Thus, more money will be taken from the taxpayers and given to the government.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">President Obama recently stated that he was planning to explore the possibility of reducing burdensome regulations.&nbsp; I think I have a suggestion as to where he might start!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell posted an article at Townhall.com&nbsp;about the Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s decision to get involved in the issue of spilled milk.&nbsp; Yes, you read that right.&nbsp; The article states: &#8220;In a classic example of this process (any power given to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2636\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}