Growls

We’ve growled before about government regulation, e.g., on June 15, 2011, where we cited an op-ed by Pete Sepp of the National Taxpayers Union who pointed out that regulation can be just as ruinous as taxation.

Now comes Audrey Hudson who writes in an op-ed in the August 24, 2011 edition of Human Events:

“The Obama administration is setting new workplace regulations to assist foreign workers who fill goat herding positions in the U.S. , including employee-paid cell phones and comfy beds.

“These new special procedures issued by the Labor Department must be followed by employers who want to hire temporary agricultural foreign workers to perform sheep herding or goat herding activities.  It describes strict rules for sleeping quarters, lighting, food storage, bathing, laundry, cooking and new rules for the counters where food is prepared.

“A separate sleeping unit shall be provided for each person, except in a family arrangement,” says the rules signed by Jane Oates, assistant secretary for employment and training administration at the Labor Department.

“Such a unit shall include a comfortable bed, cot or bunk, with a clean mattress,” the rules state.”

Hudson closed the article by including a quote from the expert she relied on who said, “It makes you wonder . . . how they ever did this before the government got involved.”