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U.S. NEWS Monday 4 July 2022
From AM to PM, the fickle force of government is with you

By CALVIN WOODWARD of new offices, and sent
Associated Press hither swarms of officers to
WASHINGTON (AP) — When harass our people, and eat
you groggily roll out of bed out their substance."
and make breakfast, the What followed were sever-
government edges up to al centuries of new offices
your kitchen table, too. Un- and swarm upon swarm of
like you, it's perky. bureaucrats come hither.
It's an unseen force in your Associated Press writer Saul
morning. The government Pett took stock of the gov-
makes sure you can see the ernment in 1981 when Presi-
nutrients in your cereal. It dent Ronald Reagan was
fusses over your toast, insist- trying to rein it in. Pett won
ing that the flour it comes a Pulitzer Prize for getting
from has no more than 75 his hands around the be-
insect fragments and one hemoth. He described the
rodent hair per 50 grams. government as:
The government also tends "A big, bumbling, generous,
to your coffee, mandat- naive, inquisitive, acquisi-
ing that no more than 10% GE lightbulbs are displayed in a supermarket April 5, 2021 in New York. tive, intrusive, meddlesome
of your beans be moldy. Associated Press giant with a heart of gold
Its satellites inform the and holes in his pockets,
weather forecast on your federal authority to con- Beyond that, it may hinder times the average adult an incredible hulk, a '10-ton
phone for the day ahead. trol carbon emissions from regulation across a range length of the sea otter con- marshmallow' lumbering
The government weighs power plants, was just the of public policy, in educa- tained therein (measured along an uncertain road
in on the water consump- latest blow to what critics tion, transportation, LGBTQ in a horizontal line from the of good intentions some-
tion in your bathroom and call the regulatory state rights and more. tip of its nose to the tip of its where between capitalism
controls the fluoride in your and potentially a major Congress, the court said, tail) and the pool shall be and socialism, an implau-
toothpaste. blow to the fight against must speak with specificity not less than .91 meters (3.0 sible giant who fights wars,
That's all before you leave global warming. when it wants to give an feet) deep." sends men to the moon,
home. The government is In its farthest reach, regula- agency authority to regu- Even as they've expanded explores the ends of the
going to be hanging with tion has become the go-to late on an issue of national government with landmark universe, feeds the hungry,
you on and off, mostly on, way for presidents to make import. laws and the explosion of heals the sick, helps the
until you turn off the lamp policy when they can't get Browse the Code of Fed- regulations that arise from helpless, a thumping com-
last thing at night — no Congress to pass a law, as eral Regulations and you them, U.S. presidents have plex of guilt trying mightily
new incandescent bulbs, on climate change. Barack will see just how specific tried since the start to sim- to make up for past sins to
please, under a new rule. Obama and Donald Trump rule-making can be. The plify government. As vice the satisfaction of nobody,
The world of federal regula- did it for varied policies; Joe voluminous code's favorite president, Al Gore took a a split personality who most
tion seems both boundless Biden does it. The court's words are "shall" and "must." run at "reinventing" it. Such of his life thought God
and microscopic. It touch- conservative majority said Take sea otters, for exam- efforts generally haven't helps those who help them-
es what you touch. It lends not so fast to Biden. ple. If you've ever won- gone well. selves and only recently
a helping hand at every The decision imperils Biden's dered how to measure a Thomas Jefferson sought concluded God needed
turn or sticks its clumsy fin- goal of cutting greenhouse sea otter, the code has the freedom from bureaucracy help, a malleable, vulner-
gers in everything, depend- gas emissions by half by answer. as well as the achievement able colossus pulled every
ing on your viewpoint. the end of the decade The pool of water for sea of American liberty when which way by everybody
But a Supreme Court rul- even as the damage from otters in captivity, it stipu- he wrote of the British king, who wants a piece of him,
ing this past week, limiting global warming mounts. lates, "shall be at least three "He has erected a multitude which is everybody."q

Long-missing Alexander Hamilton letter put

on public display

BOSTON (AP) — A letter state after a lengthy court Rhode Island. troops to support French al-
written by Alexander Ham- battle. It will be featured "We have just received ad- lies, Galvin's office said.
ilton in 1780 and believed alongside Massachusetts' vice from New York through The letter was believed to
stolen decades ago from original copy of the Decla- different channels that the have been stolen during
the Massachusetts state ar- ration of Independence. enemy are making an em- World War II by a state ar-
chives is going back on dis- Hamilton, the first Secretary barkation with which they chives worker, then sold pri-
play — though not exactly of the Treasury who's been menace the French fleet vately. It resurfaced several
in the room where it hap- getting renewed attention and army," Hamilton wrote. years ago when an auc-
pened. in recent years because of "Fifty transports are said to tioneer in Virginia received
The founding father's letter the hit Broadway musical have gone up the Sound to it from a family that wanted This image filed May 15, 2019
will be the featured piece that bears his name, wrote take in troops and proceed to sell it. The auction house in federal court as part of a
at the Commonwealth Mu- the letter to the Marquis directly to Rhode Island." determined it had been forfeiture complaint by the
seum's annual July Fourth de Lafayette, the French It's signed "Yr. Most Obe- stolen and contacted U.S. attorney's office in Boston,
exhibit, Secretary of the aristocrat who served as a dt, A. Hamilton, Aide de the FBI. A federal appeals shows a 1780 letter from Alex-
Commonwealth William general in the Continental Camp." court ruled in October that ander Hamilton to the Marquis
Galvin's office says. It's the Army. The letter was forwarded it belonged to the state.The de Lafayette, that was stolen
from the Massachusetts Ar-
first time the public is get- Dated July 21, 1780, it de- by Massachusetts Gen. Wil- Commonwealth Museum chives decades ago.
ting a chance to see it tails an imminent British liam Heath to state lead- is open from 9 a.m. until 4 Associated Press
since it was returned to the threat to French forces in ers, along with a request for p.m. on Monday.q