The Completely Insane Cost of Federal Regulations: $2 TRILLIONMelissa Melton The New American has released a new video breaking down The Competitive Enterprise Institutes annual Ten Thousand Commandments report which has concluded that federal regulations cost the economy $1.863 trillion in fiscal year 2013 alone! As New Americans William F. Jasper noted, The average family, with an average income of $65,596, will pay $15,000 in regulatory costs, or about a quarter of the familys income, buried in the prices of everything they consume. Those figures are so ridiculous, they might literally make your eyeballs pop out of your head. Think thats an incorrect use of the word literally? Not according to the updated definition of literally which says that it can be used correctly if the use is for pure hyperbole to gain emphasis, regardless of how unnecessary that emphasis might be to make the point. Think thats upside down and backwards to use the word literally when something clearly isnt literal? So is the 79,311 pages the federal regulations now take up in the Federal Register. Heres that video: Melissa Melton is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared, and a co-creator of Truthstream Media with Aaron Dykes, a site that offers teleprompter-free, unscripted analysis of The Matrix we find ourselves living in. Melissa also co-founded Nutritional Anarchy with Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper, a site focused on resistance through food self-sufficiency. Wake the flock up! 