June 24, 2011 2:42PM # This Week in Government Failure By [Tad DeHaven](https://www.cato.org/people/tad-dehaven) --- SHARE Over at [Downsizing the Federal Government](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/), we focused on the following issues this past week: - On the [National Labor Relations Board’s](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/abolish-nlrb-and-nlra) recent meddling: The idea that a small regulatory board in D.C. should try to centrally plan $1 billion of private business investment is crackers. - After finally being booted from office in November, ex-Rep. Jim Oberstar reemerges to voice his support for reauthorizing the [Economic Development Administration](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/oberstar-comes-edas-defense). The EDA should be booted too. - The numbers in the [Congressional Budget Office’s latest long-term budget forecast](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/cbos-long-term-budget-outlook) are new but the message is the same: the budget is on an unsustainable path. - The CBO’s projections show that the long-term debt problem is not a balanced one—it is caused by [historic increases in spending](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/cbo-report-reveals-spending-disaster), not shortages of revenues. - It’s a sad commentary on the size and scope of the federal government that I would get into an argument with a senator—a Republican, no less—over a [federally backed loan to a *pizza shop*](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/sen-scott-brown-sba-and-discrimination). Follow Downsizing the Federal Government on Twitter ([@DownsizeTheFeds](http://twitter.com/DownsizeTheFeds)) and connect with us [on Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/pages/Downsizing-the-Federal-Government/26635669039). ##### Related Tags [Tax and Budget Policy](https://www.cato.org/tax-budget-policy) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).