Obama Administration Living the Life of O'Caligula

The Obama administration acts like Sequestration is damaging every aspect of American life; however, these same "public servants" go on extravagent vacations and junkets that are outrageous in cost.

Caligula would've been envious of these political manipulators.

H/T: NC Renegade

Scarequestration Comes to North Carolina

“Scarequestration” has come to North Carolina.  It’s amazing how the reduction in the rate of growth of the federal government can cause such a stink.  More importantly, how much the federal government is involved in our everyday lives.  The Obama administration has been on an unprecedented scare spree.  The Clinton years pale in comparison to this.  Here is an example of what is happening:

Every slaughterhouse in the state must have a meat inspector on hand before it can process chickens, hogs or other animals. Certain meatpacking processes also need to be inspected in order to carry on operations.

Some of those inspectors work directly for the federal government. Others work jointly for the federal government and the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The state and federal governments share half the cost for those joint inspectors.

Furloughed federal inspectors and less money to pay for joint inspectors could mean that everything from liver mush for in-state consumption to hamburger patties packaged for overseas sales could be slowed down.

"That's going to back up the farm," Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler said Tuesday morning after sharing the looming problem with other members of the Council of State. Animals stuck on the farm mean higher prices for farmers and potentially higher prices for consumers.

Roughly two-thirds of the revenue in North Carolina's farm sector goes to meat producers, Troxler said. So, this rather big wrinkle in "protein production" could severely affect the industry.

It could be two or three months before the slowdown fully hits, he said, because federal inspectors must receive at least 30 days' notice before they are furloughed.

Here we have another government agency running roughshod over us plebeians.  What’s particularly insulting is that this progressive era law was based on a lie.  The Food and Drug Act of 1906 was passed because of public hysteria perpetuated by muckraking journalist, especially by Upton Sinclair.  This man was a self-loving misanthrope.  His book The Jungle was a complete fiction passed off as fact.  No one could prove the accusations by this dirtbag socialist.   But that didn’t stop the progressives from taking control over the food supply.   And if you thought Nanny Bloomberg was wacky, let’s take a look at Harvey Washington Wiley.

 Wiley is known as the “father of the Pure Food and Drug Act.”  This man was as crazy and corrupt and the day is long on the summer solstice.  It paid to be friends with this nutter.  Henry John Heinz can attest to that.  Here is an excerpt from Judge Napolitano’s book, Theodore and Woodrow:

Several food industries supported Wiley, and he attempted to ban their competitors by using his theories about adulterated foods.  For example, he attempted to pass legislation against foods such as margarine and glucose in order to please the dairy and sugar industries’ lobbyists.

Wiley promoted a federal ban on food additives only after his friend Henry John Heinz was able to find a way to make ketchup without additives.  Wiley’s connections to big business were the driving force behind his alleged health regulations.  He put off his own agenda until his friend would be exempt and left Heinz with a virtual monopoly.

I highly recommend this book.  Judge Napolitano’s details how the progressives manipulated and outright lied to the public in order to pass their agenda.  Now, we’re seeing the fruits of these nanny staters.  These progressives will starve us, just to prove a point.

 

 

 Source:  http://www.wral.com/sequester-could-slow-n-c-meat-production/12183369/?d_full_comments=1&d_comments_page=2

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Big Sis Napolitano Wins Fear Factor

Janet Napolitano just won this year’s Fear Factor.  Sequestration isn’t truly a budget cut; it’s a reduction in the rate of growth.  This woman would have us believe that they can’t function on a budget.  What in the hell am I talking about?  They don’t have a budget!

What I really found laughable is her assertion that the Obama administration is enforcing our immigration laws.  Hell, they’re doing everything they can not to crack down on illegal aliens.  The only way they can get deported is if they’ve committed a felony.  You’d think that violating our sovereignty and  laws is a crime.  Welcome to America.  Don’t forget to wipe your feet on the American people.

And to add emphasis on how skeletal the Department of Homeland Security is, they’re releasing illegals from jails all around the country, instead of deporting them.

A week before mandatory budget cuts go into effect across the government, the Department of Homeland Security has started releasing illegal immigrants being held in immigration jails across the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday.

Gillian Christensen, an ICE spokeswoman, said ICE has reviewed "several hundred cases" of immigrants being held in jails around the country and released them in the last week. They have been "placed on an appropriate, more cost-effective form of supervised release," she said.

Christensen said the agency's "priority for detention remains on serious criminal offenders and other individuals who pose a significant threat to public safety." She did not say how released immigrants were selected or what jails they were released from.

Tuesday's announcement of jail releases is the first tangible impact of the looming budget cuts for DHS.

The Obama administration has been issuing dire warnings about the impact of the sequestration and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters at the White House Monday that across-the-board cuts would impact the department's core operations, including border security and airport screening operations.

She also warned that DHS might not be able to afford to keep the 34,000 immigration jail beds mandated by Congress. On average last week, there were 30,773 people being held in ICE jails.

"I don't think we can maintain the same level of security at all places around the country with sequester as without sequester," said Napolitano, adding that the impact would be "'like a rolling ball. It will keep growing."

In the meantime, DHS has enough money to stockpile billions of rounds of ammo to use against the citizens of this country when this governments reckless spending turns us into Greece.  Homeland Security my ass.

Source:  http://news.yahoo.com/dhs-releasing-illegal-immigrants-sequester-172435129.html