Comments on: Is This an Example of the Nanny State Run Amok, Government Stupidity, or the Overlawyered Society? http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/is-this-an-example-of-the-nanny-state-run-amok-government-stupidity-or-the-overlawyered-society/ Restraining Government in America and Around the World Sun, 19 May 2013 18:01:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Suspended for Playing Cops and Robbers?!? The Continuing Wussification of America | Sago http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/is-this-an-example-of-the-nanny-state-run-amok-government-stupidity-or-the-overlawyered-society/#comment-53091 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:12:16 +0000 http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/?p=9947#comment-53091 [...] in Maryland. This is the state, after all, that crashed on the Laffer Curve, imposed regulations making it difficult for summer camps to protect kids from sunburn, and considered a law to give bums panhandling [...]

]]> By: Suspended for Playing Cops and Robbers?!? The Continuing Wussification of America « International Liberty http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/is-this-an-example-of-the-nanny-state-run-amok-government-stupidity-or-the-overlawyered-society/#comment-53072 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:42:23 +0000 http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/?p=9947#comment-53072 [...] in Maryland. This is the state, after all, that crashed on the Laffer Curve, imposed regulations making it difficult for summer camps to protect kids from sunburn, and considered a law to give bums panhandling [...]

]]> By: Stories Like this Lead Me to Think there’s No Hope for the United Kingdom « International Liberty http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/is-this-an-example-of-the-nanny-state-run-amok-government-stupidity-or-the-overlawyered-society/#comment-50395 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:26:01 +0000 http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/?p=9947#comment-50395 [...] We also have regulations in Maryland governing the application of sunscreen at summer camps. [...]

]]> By: Political Correctness Run Amok: Some Private Sector Contestants for the U.S. vs U.K. Stupidity Contest « International Liberty http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/is-this-an-example-of-the-nanny-state-run-amok-government-stupidity-or-the-overlawyered-society/#comment-44906 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:40:46 +0000 http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/?p=9947#comment-44906 [...] We also have regulations in Maryland governing the application of sunscreen at summer camps. [...]

]]> By: You Can’t Make Them Stop. Destroy Them With Mockery! « American Elephants http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/is-this-an-example-of-the-nanny-state-run-amok-government-stupidity-or-the-overlawyered-society/#comment-30715 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 14:12:23 +0000 http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/?p=9947#comment-30715 [...] down the same path. We really have to stop this: —Maryland  has regulations governing the application of sunscreen at summer camps. —A Rhode Island boy got in trouble for bringing a toy gun to school. —The [...]

]]> By: The United Kingdom Is Doomed by a Perniciously Wimpy Form of Political Correctness | Sago http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/is-this-an-example-of-the-nanny-state-run-amok-government-stupidity-or-the-overlawyered-society/#comment-30604 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 15:00:34 +0000 http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/?p=9947#comment-30604 [...] We also have regulations in Maryland governing the application of sunscreen at summer camps. [...]

]]> By: The United Kingdom Is Doomed by a Perniciously Wimpy Form of Political Correctness « International Liberty http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/is-this-an-example-of-the-nanny-state-run-amok-government-stupidity-or-the-overlawyered-society/#comment-30441 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:07:39 +0000 http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/?p=9947#comment-30441 [...] We also have regulations in Maryland governing the application of sunscreen at summer camps. [...]

]]> By: DonM http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/is-this-an-example-of-the-nanny-state-run-amok-government-stupidity-or-the-overlawyered-society/#comment-12030 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:32:52 +0000 http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/?p=9947#comment-12030 Wasn’t this “touching problem” solved with the invention of spray on sunscreen?

Government can always be depended on to lock the barn door after the horse has already gotten out, and then to tell you how lucky you are to have them on the job.

]]> By: georgesblog360 http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/is-this-an-example-of-the-nanny-state-run-amok-government-stupidity-or-the-overlawyered-society/#comment-11960 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:03:25 +0000 http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/?p=9947#comment-11960 Stupid is as stupid does. Corporatism micro-manages everything to death. The corporate structure won’t be happy until everyone is standing in line, waiting for metered distribution of approved supplies. That is efficiency, which Hitler was very fond of.

]]> By: Larry Shepherd http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/is-this-an-example-of-the-nanny-state-run-amok-government-stupidity-or-the-overlawyered-society/#comment-11952 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:49:33 +0000 http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/?p=9947#comment-11952 While Maryland has a history of adopting some ‘Nanny State’ measures, I have to believe that the measures were adopted out of the fear of potential lawsuits from the public. As a former city administrator, I witnessed attempts by the public to reap financial gain by suing, or threatening to bring a lawsuit against the city for seemingly innocuous conditions. A piece of crumbling asphalt in a street is a potential lawsuit waiting to happen if a citizen happens to step into the hole and twist an ankle. A city park and pool are just brimming with opportunities for lawsuits. Very often, the insurance carriers for the governmental agency will negotiate a quick settlement with the citizen in order to avoid the possibility of a very large jury awarded settlement at a trial. After several years of such claims, the insurance carrier will either raise the premiums that the agency must pay, or drop the agency as a bad risk. The result of this detail is to close the park and pool, over-compensate by issuing seemingly ridiculous regulations, or raise the fee schedule that the public must pay in order to fund current and future insurance premium increases. All governments in this country are the result of what we have allowed, or wanted them to become. A government is not a tangible object that can be touched or seen. Our government is within every one of us. Before we can change the current outrageous conditions of government, we first must change our lives and our values. The Founding Fathers didn’t do anything wrong: We have just gone astray.

]]> By: Larry Ward http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/is-this-an-example-of-the-nanny-state-run-amok-government-stupidity-or-the-overlawyered-society/#comment-11949 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 13:13:47 +0000 http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/?p=9947#comment-11949 http://www.ajc.com/lifestyle/underwater-blackout-a-dangerous-986999.html

Read this article. There are no words to describe the wussification of the Nanny State.

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