Another Job Lost - thanks to gummint

Grumpy Gov't Bans Adorable Nametag-Wearing Lab From Gas Station

Karim Mansour, the store and dog owner, received a warning: Remove the dog or the Florida Department of Agriculture would declare all of Mansour's food products — mostly bottled sodas, Slim Jims and candy bars — unfit for consumption.  [Story] ”

Yeh yeh yeh ... the health inspector was just doing his job.  As he saw it. Mary Katherine Ham asks, Is it any wonder we're all anti-statists now? Support for a free market economy remains strong despite the extended recession and last fall’s Wall Street meltdown.  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 76% of voters now say a free market economy is better than one managed by the government. Only 10% prefer an economy managed by the government.  Those figures are virtually identical to the numbers from April and a slight increase in support from a year ago. It's one thing for government to operate so incompetently as to have lost more faith during this historically bad economic downturn than the markets they've been blaming for it all year, but to go after our anthropomorphic puppy cashiers? This is the last straw. ”