President Obama Announces He is Handing Government Control Over To Conservatives

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President Obama Announces He is Handing Government Control Over To Conservatives



Obama to press cabinet to make government ‘smarter’

Washington Examiner

President Obama is directing his cabinet to find more efficient, “smarter” ways to run government in his second term just two days after his administration opened the door to widespread fraud in the roll out of health care exchanges this fall.

The president plans to meet with his Cabinet at 10:30 a.m. “to lay out a vision for smarter government during his second term,” the White House said in an update to Obama’s Monday schedule.

He also plan to make a public statement shortly before noon in the State Dining Room on his “management agenda.”

Obama will focus on progress the administration has already made in three key areas: “Delivering government services better, smarter and faster … finding ways to reduce waste and save taxpayers money; and … opening up huge amounts of government data to give entrepreneurs and businesses the ability to create jobs and solve problems.”

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DC Bureaucrats Forbid Watering Flowers, Then Tear Them Up


You won’t find a story more emblematic of bloated Big Government’s role in civilization than this:


Two weeks ago, I wrote that the transit system would look silly if it let perish 1,000 flowers planted secretly at the Dupont Circle station by local garden artist Henry Docter, the self-described Phantom Planter.

I feared that Metro would merely neglect the flowers. Instead, last Sunday, it sent workmen to yank them out.

The transit system regularly pleads poverty, yet employees devoted supposedly valuable time to remove more than 1,000 morning glories, cardinal flowers and cypress vines that Docter donated to the city — albeit without permission. The plants would have bloomed from August to October in a patriotic display of red, white and blue.

Instead of greenery today and colors to come, the 176 flower boxes along the top stretch of the escalators at the station’s north entrance now feature dirt, a few straggling stems and the occasional discarded soda can.

“It never occurred to me that Metro would think it was more efficient to rip out the plants than to let someone water them,” Docter said.

Despite living in Washington, Docter doesn’t seem to grasp the mentality of bureaucrats, who aren’t likely to like anything that wasn’t done on their orders.


Docter, 52, has engaged in stealth gardening in public places for more than three decades. He describes his work as performance art.

He went public about it for the first time last month after Metro formally threatened him with imprisonment if he watered, weeded or otherwise cared for the flowers he’d planted.

At least the public is on his side…


A Web petition defending him has attracted more than 3,600 signatures.

Characteristically, bureaucrats have dissembled about their motives, citing phantom repairs and even claiming that the flowers were wilting, despite rainfall being more than double average in DC in June.

Next will come a multimillion-dollar taxpayer-funded government program to pay “volunteers” to plant dandelions where Docter’s flowers were torn up.

 

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