Dysfunction by design

One of the reasons we currently have a totally nonaccountable federal government is that the framers of the constitution designed it for a weak federal government.

Unfortunately, over years of the feds usurping the role of the states, we now have parochial representatives dictating national policy, it's a natural dysfunction by design.

Nothing illustrates this more than Chuck Schumer, a senator who should be spending 100% of his time dealing with all things in our national interest. Instead, Chuckie finds the need to throw himself into telling IHOP what kind of maple syrup they need to put on their pancakes.....

New York ’s senior U.S. senator, Charles Schumer, has asked IHOP to stock New York-made maple syrup in all of its 44 locations in the state, a call prompted by the pancake chain’s recent commitment to use Vermont syrup in its (for now lone) restaurant in the Green Mountain State.

In a letter to IHOP CEO Julia Stewart, Schumer wrote:

I believe that replicating this option in New York with New York’s own maple syrup will be both a delicious option for customers as well as a boon to the State’s maple tapping industry.

Huh?

I guess if IHOP declines they won't be getting any TARP money anytime soon!

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