The national Libertarian party’s re-published a list of the top-ten federal government mistakes, with the addition of ten new mistakes. I’ve listed them below — the details for each are available at the LP website. Exec. Dir. Wes Benedict contends that these are mostly mistakes of the Obama Administration, but many of these policies pre-date the current administration, and received (sadly) the support of both parties in Congress.
1. Cash for Clunkers
2. War escalation in Afghanistan
3. Giant government health care expansion bill
4. Post office loses money hand over fist
5. Stimulus package
6. Expansion of “state secrets” doctrine
7. Big increase in unemployment
8. “Bailout” Geithner as Treasury Secretary
9. Skyrocketing federal spending
10. Huge federal deficits
And here are ten new ones:
11. War in Libya
12. Assassination doctrine
13. Big-spending deals with Republicans
14. Keeping Guantanamo open
15. Fed massively inflates fiat currency
16. War on Poker
17. Patriot Act extensions
18. Sustaining warrantless wiretaps
19. Sustaining War in Iraq
20. Medical Marijuana raids