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Posted on 02/09/2013 8:49:34 AM PST by ConradofMontferrat
The Obama administration warned on Friday that across-the-board spending cuts set to take effect in March may result in furloughing every U.S. meat and poultry inspector for two weeks, causing the meat industry to shut down.
By law, meatpackers and processors are not allowed to ship beef, pork, lamb and poultry meat without the Agriculture Department's inspection seal.
The prospect of mass furloughs of meat and food inspectors was part of a broader White House warning about the effects of the potential spending cuts on everyday life. Meatpackers said a shut-down would devastate consumers as well as their industry.
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He Will do this because he can drive the middle class deeper into debt and create a "crisis" and blame the gelding pubbies all at the same time.
This, combined with gas prices creeping higher (he will go for $5 now that he's safely re-elected) will put the average guy into poverty.
the administration is threatening the food supply sort of like Stalin did
ship it anyway, screw the depart of ag acting like some war lord
Hey, Zero, sequestering was your idea!!!!
Freezer’s full. Full steam ahead.
He’s jealous of Argentina’s food shortages.
Nobody envisioned this. This is Barack tantrums.
So! We can all become vegetarians, like Hitler.
It’s already into overdrive. Apparently we won’t have meat, our military will crumble, cats and dogs living together...essentially the worst stuff from the Bible.
...but I have both of my testicles.
The revolution must start now or the communists will take all of our freedoms. This communists government must be removed from power.
Many in this WH are knowledgeable about meatpacking
This what happens when a society becomes over consumed by their need to be protected from anything that could harm us. We allow the government to become a draconian monster that can destroy society if we try to reign it in from out of control spending.
Those who are willing to give up a portion of their freedoms so that it will be protected from harm will inevitably end up with neither their freedom nor thief safety from harm
Or something in that nature.
Just adopt a shelter dog and pretend you are Obama.
Remember Obama’s campaign promise to punish his enemies and get revenge? He’s punishing those who cling bitterly to their guns and religion and getting revenge on his opponents. If some of his supporters suffer, it’s an acceptable cost. Besides, he’ll never be held accountable for any outrage, especially the sheep who believe him to be divine.
But, but, what about the Chilrun and women and their EBT cards???? What WILL THEY EAT????
I may have to learn to like clams after all...
BWAAAAAHAAAA!
Flashback: “Obama pledges to veto effort to undo automatic spending cuts”
“Already some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts. My message to them is simple: No,” Mr. Obama said from the White House briefing room Monday evening. “I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending.” November 21, 2011
“The President will urge Congress to come together and act to ensure these devastating cuts to defense and job-creating programs don’t take effect.” - White House statement, February 5, 2013
“the administration is threatening the food supply sort of like Stalin did”
Sew divisiveness, doubt, fear. Then only The One and his lackeys will be able to help.
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The Republicans did their part. Now we're seeing Obomas part of his deal. If people don't like meat being cut, they shouldn't have voted for Oboma. It's really quite simple. If they have a complaint, talk to him about it. It's his call.
No it won’t, and no HE won’t. The feds don’t have enough people to enforce it, let alone enough people to stop deliveries. The only one’s who’ll stop are the large ag-interests who are in bed with the government, and they’ll end up suffering for their capitulation to the fed gov monster.
Copy that.
I’m all for his 47% to do without. The rest of common sense America will do just fine.
Food riots will make for some great TV and nice practical target practice.
If Obama furloughs the meat inspectors it is because he CHOOSES to do so. With a budget of over a trillion dollars the cuts can easily come from elsewhere.
Liberal ideas of cuts in spending are to spread the most pain to the most people, in order to get what they want—Higher taxes.
Chilrun and women and their EBT cards???? What WILL THEY EAT???? Junk food and Hot Pockets, as usual.
I guess those bitter clingers will just to have to go hunting. The Dem zombies can eat each other.
Maybe we shut you down Zero!!!
The primary impediment to the removal of the clowns and bad seed from our government is that we are not ready. No good leaders, no supplies, no organization and lastly no Will. At present people are too busy eating, drinking, drugging, copulating, evacuating their bowels, snoring and then attending the "Games!" We have quite a task to perform before we can even dream of a proper removal of the scum presently holding office. We must-inter alia- destroy egalitarianism, restore some morals, look for leaders,organize and develop a desire to remove.
Plenty of venison and bear in the freezer. If I run out, I’ll just replenish from behind the house.
The usurper has meddled in the price of oyssters, corn, ammo, etc. Now, he’s going after meat. Anything to bring about a crisis. Anything to destroy America.
... but it doesn’t threaten tofu and arugula processors, I take it?
This is the same tactic used by municipalities to get a tax rate increase. They always threaten the very things that the voting public cares about, like police and fire departments, but not a peep about the mountain of paper shufflers and regulatory busybodies in their employ.
They are certainly doing everything they can to promote and encourage fudgepacking...
Zing!
Don’t mean to be nit picky, but just when did communism “die?”
The collapse of the Soviet Union did NOT kill communism. It is still alive in many, many places. Places like North Korea, China (still is communist), Cuba a smattering of African countries and a large majority of universities in this country.
Communism is a political ideology, and as such cannot “die.” It will always be practiced by some group somewhere. Like in our own White House.
A glance at the CPUSA will shed some light on the vast number of people who still adhere to Marxism as a legitimate form of government.
Marxism is definitely not dead and gone, the commie pigs just want you to think so.
“Liberal ideas of cuts in spending are to spread the most pain to the most people”
Right from the old leftist playbook. But since there is so much waste, fraud and unnecessary spending, this can be easily countered - grab the microphone and ask people whether they need meat for their families, or NPR, or {fill in the blank] . . . then watch the libs squirm like the worms that they are.
The immediate thought is that supermarkets will have empty shelves where fresh beef, pork and chicken would be and that would hurt consumers and markets.
But think of all of the restaurants that advertise using only fresh not frozen meat. In-N-Out, Five Guys, Wendys, and several other fast food places advertise the same. Top end eateries rely upon daily deliveries of the freshest food to keep their reputation up.
This is a huge threat and may be the best opportunity for Republicans to show some balls and dare the President to cut off the nation’s meat supplies. It might, just might, get through to a few voters what was at stake in the last election and what lies have been fed to them by the media.
My money is on those “2 week furloughs” being 8 hours a week for 14 weeks or or 8 hours a payperiod for 14 pay periods or something like that. It doesn’t have to shut down anything.
Aren’t these inspectors paid through “user fees” that he meat packers pay? Does anyone know how they are funded?
I think you are missing the point. The point isn’t to COMPROMISE.
The point is to PUNISH. If it goes through, it will be a solid 2 weeks, and “The One” will point the finger at the pubbies and the Joey Goebbels and Baghdad Bobs of the msm will scream to high heaven about what those “wascally wepublicans” have done.
This tactic is not new.
Just harken back to the days of Slick Willie and the gov shutdown that HE orchestrated. All the press and bureauKaRATZ lined up sob stories about how those pubbies were soooo meeeaaannn.
Count on it. Its in their playbook.
How are the EBT folks gonna have their BBQs?
You would think that the geniuses (I refer to Congressional Republicans in this case, quite facetiously) who so believe that they have the answer to all our lives, that they spend millions to get elected, only to go against our wishes in “our best interests”, would have a plan when something perfectly foreseeable like this situation, arises. An answer to this cipher of a president. But they never do-all the while that he’s pointing the finger at them, they just stand there with their fingers in their mouths going “duuuhhhh”. O course, having an enemedia doesn’t help, but they don’t even try to make their case. If anything, they suck up to the media, as if they’re being blackmailed. Hmmmm...
Yeah, even though Hussein does it every single last time (blame the Republicans for his own failures), they act as if they never saw it coming when he does again.
They won’t do it like that. They’ll squeal about the “evil rich” (anyone who earns their own way and pays taxes) and how they’re going to make sure that the downtrodden (parasites) get their cut. A majority of the voters now just want their “gibmes” at someone else’s expense.
You know what the Regime really fears? One day, they might try to threaten us by withholding one of their wonderful Federal "services", and we won't miss it. We might find out we don't need it. The same can be said for most of the Federal government.
This is Obama’s Great Leap Forward.
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