October 15, 2010 1:09PM

This Week in Government Failure

By Tad DeHaven

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

Could the results of the November elections be a nail in the Obama administration’s high‐speed rail coffin? Let’s hope.
The U.S. Postal Service can’t afford its unions.
A new study finds that federal and state governments have wasted billions of dollars on subsidies for students who didn’t make it past their first year in college.
The Obama administration’s plan to fix Head Start with some bureaucratic tinkering is not “almost enough to restore a person’s faith in the federal government.”
Now is a good time to get rid of farm subsidies.

Note: Chris Edwards will be discussing Downsizing Government on Fox News’ Special Report With Bret Baier on Monday @ 6:00 PM EST.