June 18, 2010 11:44AM

This Week in Government Failure

By Tad DeHaven

Over at Downsizing Government, we focused on the following issues this week:

President Obama wants to give his government employee union pals another $50 billion gift courtesy of taxpayers.
An enterprising reporter from a small newspaper in Illinois shows that federal food subsidies aren’t a free lunch. It’s a good example of the sort of work reporters at the big papers should be undertaking.
The Department of Labor is about to send hither swarms of officers to harass already struggling businesses.
Former Clinton HUD secretary Henry Cisneros is trying to rewrite HUD’s sorry history.
Note to the House of Representatives: the Federal Housing Administration doesn’t need to be reformed — it needs to be abolished.