Bureaucrats Destroying the Country?

I don't know if this is a real situation but never the less it illustrates a good point - bureaucrats are killing our country. Government is too big and is out of control.

(Author Unknown)
Part of rebuilding New Orleans caused residents often to be challenged

with the task of tracing home titles back potentially hundreds of years.

With a community rich with history stretching back over two centuries,

houses have been passed along through generations of family, sometimes

making it quite difficult to establish ownership.

 

Here's a great letter an attorney wrote to the FHA on behalf of a client:

A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client. He was told
the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to a parcel
of property being offered as collateral. The title to the property dated
back to 1803, which took the lawyer three months to track down. After
sending the information to the FHA, he received the following reply:

(Actual reply from FHA):

"Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan application,

we note the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While we

compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented
the application, we must point out you have only cleared title to the

proposed collateral property back to 1803. Before final approval can be

accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its origin."                       
Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows:

(Actual response):

"Your letter regarding title in Case No.189156 has been received. I note

you wish to have title extended further than the 206 years covered by the

presen t application.

I was unaware any educated person in this country, particularly those

working in the property area, would not know Louisiana was purchased

by the United States from France in 1803, the year of origin identified in

our application. For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the

title to the land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France , which

had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain . The land came into the

possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the year 1492 by a sea

captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege

of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch, Queen Isabella.

The good Queen Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful about

titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of the Pope

before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus's expedition. Now the Pope,

as I'm sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God,

and God, it is commonly accepted, created this world. Therefore, I believe it

is safe to presume God also made the part of the world called Louisiana .

God, therefore, would be the owner of origin and his origins date back to

before the beginning of time, the world as we know it, and the FHA.

I hope you find God's original claim to be satisfactory.

 

Now, may we have our loan?"

The loan was immediately approved.

And this same Government wants to run health care!