Who Decided This?

from The American Dream

"Who decided that it would be a good idea for the Department of Homeland Security to help arrest prostitutes?

Who decided that it would be a good idea for the Federal Reserve to pay banks not to lend money to U.S. businesses and U.S. consumers?

Who decided that it would be a good idea to become so dependent on foreign oil? The average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States is now $3.80.

Who decided that it would be a good idea for the United States to have the highest incarceration rate in the entire world?

Who decided that it would be a good idea to allow private companies to run many of our prisons?

Who decided that it would be a good idea to put large amounts of “pink slime” into the school lunches of America’s school children?

Who decided that it would be a good idea to require barbers and beauticians in Iowa to receive 2,100 hours of education before they are allowed to cut hair?

Who decided that it would be a good idea for the United States to have the most lawyers per capita in the entire world?

Who decided that it would be a good idea for Americans to take more prescription drugs than anyone else in the world?

Who decided that it would be a good idea to arrest people that are just trying to feed the homeless?

Who decided that it would be a good idea for police to drag women around by their hair and shoot pepper spray directly into their faces?

Who decided that it would be a good idea to allow our scientists to create “spider-goats” and other really weird genetically-modified creatures?

Who decided that it would be a good idea for Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State?

Who decided that it would be a good idea to put an ingredient derived from human hair into our bread?

Who decided that it would be a good idea to run a 560 billion dollar trade deficit with the rest of the globe in 2011?

Who decided that it would be a good idea for the federal government to put thousands of guns into the hands of Mexican drug gangs?

Who decided that it would be a good idea “to accelerate fertility decline in the least developed countries“?

Who decided that it would be a good idea to put the Federal Reserve in charge of our money supply? Since the Federal Reserve took over, the U.S. dollar has lost more than 95 percent of its value.

Who decided that it would be a good idea for TSA agents to strip-search elderly women and grope their private parts in the name of airport security? Does seeing and feeling the private parts of elderly women actually make us all safer?"