Bureaucracy Run Amok

The latest illustration of the problems caused by overly-intrusive Government comes from Michigan.

A woman in Irving Township, Michigan has been told to stop watching neighborhood children in her home while they wait the bus. She was told she was in violation of laws targeting unlicensed day-care providers.

Lisa Snyder's home is a designated school bus stop. She agreed to watch three school children in her home so their mothers could drop them off early on their way to work.


Some nosy neighbor complained, and the Michigan Department of Human Services wrote her a letter telling her she was violating the law.


The law in question prohibits looking after unrelated children for more than four weeks in any calendar year, unless they are licensed day-care providers.


I think they way that is worded says enough about the "intelligence" of the legislators that wrote it. And the letter it provoked from the Michigan Department of Human Services says enough about the people in that agency.