{"id":6586,"date":"2010-06-26T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T15:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=6586"},"modified":"2010-06-26T10:50:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T15:50:03","slug":"when-the-only-solution-you-have-is-government-everything-you-have-is-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/26\/when-the-only-solution-you-have-is-government-everything-you-have-is-a-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"When The Only Solution You Have Is Government, Everything You Have Is A Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline tells enough of the story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/grand-rapids\/index.ssf\/2010\/06\/epa_classifies_milk_as_oil_for.html\" target=\"_blank\">EPA classifies milk as oil, forcing costly rules on farmers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, we have the government putting its boot on the neck of an oil company for an accident, and now we have the government redefining &#8220;oil&#8221; because its hydra-heels need more necks to put all those boots on.  Somewhere, Eric Blair is nodding his head and marking off steps he could have forewarned us about if he hadn&#8217;t caught that damn cough.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, someone at the EPA is busy trying to make it like he or she is doing something in the eyes of the boss, which sadly less and less looks to be the citizens of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/troglopundit.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/26\/what-if-we-take-a-gallon-of-milk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Troglopundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline tells enough of the story: EPA classifies milk as oil, forcing costly rules on farmers Okay, we have the government putting its boot on the neck of an oil company for an accident, and now we have the government redefining &#8220;oil&#8221; because its hydra-heels need more necks to put all those boots on. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-government","category-government-overreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6588,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions\/6588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}