Instead of under-funding the USDA, how about they stop this insane "drug war" and cut the DEA - would save billions. Another idea: repeal the pay raise that Congress gave itself.
We do not care. We are republickans and we do not mind the deaths of those who can't afford their own food testing labs. Those people are takers and moochers. Taxes must be lower. The government must be cut. The decisions and implementations must be shifted to the corporations. Those who can't cut it will have to fend for themselves. Because we are the Real Americans!
The administration is legally required to inspect meat factories to the same extent that they are required to take every other action that was stipulated by the laws and budgets previously passed by Congress. But this does not, apparently, imply that they are permitted to spend the money that it costs to take those actions. Indeed, Congress now is on the verge of explicitly forbidding the executive branch to spend the money that it would cost to do all the things that last year's Congress explicitly ordered them to do this year. The executive branch is over a barrel, and if compelled to violate the law one way or another, will either make the choices that seem least harmful to the nation if maintained long-term (assuming a permanent surrender to a certain portion of Congress) or those that will inspire the most hysterical public backlash (assuming a continued fight).
Maybe this would be an apropos time for me to plug the idea of relocalizing ag inspections back to the states, which would offer advantages including the lack of a costly central bureaucracy, the ability of local inspectors to keep working when Washington can't or won't, and the ability of individual states to choose a less hostile attitude toward traditional small farming methods. No doubt certain states' legislatures, effectively purchased by Big Ag, would initially eschew any Job Killing Regulayshuns whatsoever, but their tune would change as soon as a couple of important people's kids died of E. coli 0157:H7-induced kidney failure, and it would be a useful object lesson for the remaining citizenry.
Most of the inspections are carried out by employees of the companies under the guidance of the USDA. Cutting USDA personnel wouldn't have much impact.
The in thing for the USDA is to allow higher levels of radiation to irradiate food with which will allow more tainted food in the food stream and hoping the radiation will work.
And just last week the report said food prices would soar because of ObamaCare requiring additional food labeling...... so are we getting more or less regulation & what is the cost to the consumer to know the apple they are buying is an apple?
Isn't it odd that all the millionaires in our government making decisions regarding our lives, our standard of living, our retirement and medical care have absolutely no skin in the game. No matter what they decide, they will be ok.
They have legislated an entirely different world for themselves than the one we live in. Do you think they are worried about their food supply or what happens to social security, medicare, etc.
Did you READ the article? Obama is ASKING that Congress continue the FDA budgetary needs in order to continue the meat supply for the U.S. and in order to PREVENT food borne illness. How is that his effort to make the U.S. North Korea?
If you want INTELLIGENT arguments against Obama, I have a few, but no president escapes unscathed when I make my arguments on mistakes they should NOT have made. I get really tired of people who just spew crap that has nothing to do with truth. Just say you hate the guy and leave it be. THAT is at least respectable, don't make up false reasons.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, unless you let me continue to spend the country into bankruptcy (well actually further into bankruptcy) your food won't be safe and you'll all die of food poisoning. Signed BHO. Look for more threats of dire consequences to come out of Washington in the weeks to come. When schools want more of your tax money they all threaten to stop busing, cut out sports, etc. It's an old but effective tactic. Scare the sheep at their wallets magically swing open wide. As far as I'm concerned they can do away with the FDA altogether. The only thing they're good for is closing the barn door after the cows are out anyway. Screw'em.
Or: "Waaaa, I want my kids to have schooling with all the amenities, including team sports and motorized transport to school, but I don't want to have to pay property taxes." Or: "Waaaa, nobody I value should never be killed by a toxic or tainted product but I shouldn't have to pay for any enforcement of regulations." Americans of all parties are bad at understanding that they can't have everything they want at whatever price they would prefer. Conservatives can't ever admit that the economic pie is finite, or the fact that the 1% are getting a skyrocketing share of it would become an explosive political issue. Liberals don't want to admit that a world in which all people have access to all of the goods and services that would be beneficial to them simply can't be realized at present population levels. But our resources are finite, and the resources available to government even more so because there are not only hard limits on their size but political limits. (We cut taxes on the rich, so sooner or later, the government will be forced to spend less.)
So, if any administration is told that they must start spending less, right now, then some programs must be stopped or reduced. All of these programs are perceived as being of some value, so no matter what they cut, someone will be upset and angry. Sports and busing, for example, are (at least in some opinions) goods. But if local voters won't pay taxes to support everything a school wants to do, it's better to cut sports and busing than math and science. If the feds cut meat inspection, and meat gets scarcer and more costly, the experience of the Great Depression and World War 2 indicates that the result will be fewer fatal heart attacks. It's not going to kill anyone to eat fewer hamburgers (indeed, it might eventually cut Medicare's costs a bit), and it would annoy a lot of entitled voters who would then yell at their congresscritters, so from either strategic approach that is a rationally selected place to start cutting. But of course it is about .0001% of the budget, I suppose, so there will need to be plenty more cut as well.
A White House memo released late last week said that one of the consequences of the federal budget cuts, known as sequestration, would be 2,100 fewer food facility inspections by the Food and Drug Administration
That's easily remedied. Severely cut the imperial White House and unneeded Secret Service budgets instead. Then take money from the budgets of the Senate and the Congress; none of these people are doing their jobs. They are the cause of the out of balance budget; they should feel the pain the most.
The memo is flotsam scare tactics. The FDA doesn't do its job anyway; cancel the whole damned agency.
and once again the working class gets screwed....take back the gov't's un-needed and undeserved pay raises..then cut back on the dea since they really don't accomplish much anyway...then thin out the INS...or let them shoot the illeagals crossing the border...stop paying able bodied lazy ass's welfare...you get the idea.alot of places that should be cut...
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That shouldn't impact Cops and Congress who spend most of their time in donuts shops.
Instead of under-funding the USDA, how about they stop this insane "drug war" and cut the DEA - would save billions. Another idea: repeal the pay raise that Congress gave itself.
We do not care. We are republickans and we do not mind the deaths of those who can't afford their own food testing labs. Those people are takers and moochers. Taxes must be lower. The government must be cut. The decisions and implementations must be shifted to the corporations. Those who can't cut it will have to fend for themselves. Because we are the Real Americans!
The administration is legally required to inspect meat factories to the same extent that they are required to take every other action that was stipulated by the laws and budgets previously passed by Congress. But this does not, apparently, imply that they are permitted to spend the money that it costs to take those actions. Indeed, Congress now is on the verge of explicitly forbidding the executive branch to spend the money that it would cost to do all the things that last year's Congress explicitly ordered them to do this year. The executive branch is over a barrel, and if compelled to violate the law one way or another, will either make the choices that seem least harmful to the nation if maintained long-term (assuming a permanent surrender to a certain portion of Congress) or those that will inspire the most hysterical public backlash (assuming a continued fight).
Maybe this would be an apropos time for me to plug the idea of relocalizing ag inspections back to the states, which would offer advantages including the lack of a costly central bureaucracy, the ability of local inspectors to keep working when Washington can't or won't, and the ability of individual states to choose a less hostile attitude toward traditional small farming methods. No doubt certain states' legislatures, effectively purchased by Big Ag, would initially eschew any Job Killing Regulayshuns whatsoever, but their tune would change as soon as a couple of important people's kids died of E. coli 0157:H7-induced kidney failure, and it would be a useful object lesson for the remaining citizenry.
One thing for sure, your approach would make the particular origin of a food much more important for a lot of people.
Most of the inspections are carried out by employees of the companies under the guidance of the USDA. Cutting USDA personnel wouldn't have much impact.
Good point. One wonders why that wasn't mentioned in the article.
The in thing for the USDA is to allow higher levels of radiation to irradiate food with which will allow more tainted food in the food stream and hoping the radiation will work.
And just last week the report said food prices would soar because of ObamaCare requiring additional food labeling...... so are we getting more or less regulation & what is the cost to the consumer to know the apple they are buying is an apple?
The only thing that ultimately saves us from the gargantuan bureaucracy is it's monumental inefficiency.
What inspector? I get most of my food from my vegetable garden...
It's ok. We all have to die of something.
Isn't it odd that all the millionaires in our government making decisions regarding our lives, our standard of living, our retirement and medical care have absolutely no skin in the game. No matter what they decide, they will be ok.
They have legislated an entirely different world for themselves than the one we live in. Do you think they are worried about their food supply or what happens to social security, medicare, etc.
I don't think so.
Obama seems hell-bent upon making the United States of America into another North Korea. God help us to survive this feckless fool.
Did you READ the article? Obama is ASKING that Congress continue the FDA budgetary needs in order to continue the meat supply for the U.S. and in order to PREVENT food borne illness. How is that his effort to make the U.S. North Korea?
If you want INTELLIGENT arguments against Obama, I have a few, but no president escapes unscathed when I make my arguments on mistakes they should NOT have made. I get really tired of people who just spew crap that has nothing to do with truth. Just say you hate the guy and leave it be. THAT is at least respectable, don't make up false reasons.
Reading is Fundamental!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, unless you let me continue to spend the country into bankruptcy (well actually further into bankruptcy) your food won't be safe and you'll all die of food poisoning. Signed BHO. Look for more threats of dire consequences to come out of Washington in the weeks to come. When schools want more of your tax money they all threaten to stop busing, cut out sports, etc. It's an old but effective tactic. Scare the sheep at their wallets magically swing open wide. As far as I'm concerned they can do away with the FDA altogether. The only thing they're good for is closing the barn door after the cows are out anyway. Screw'em.
Or: "Waaaa, I want my kids to have schooling with all the amenities, including team sports and motorized transport to school, but I don't want to have to pay property taxes." Or: "Waaaa, nobody I value should never be killed by a toxic or tainted product but I shouldn't have to pay for any enforcement of regulations." Americans of all parties are bad at understanding that they can't have everything they want at whatever price they would prefer. Conservatives can't ever admit that the economic pie is finite, or the fact that the 1% are getting a skyrocketing share of it would become an explosive political issue. Liberals don't want to admit that a world in which all people have access to all of the goods and services that would be beneficial to them simply can't be realized at present population levels. But our resources are finite, and the resources available to government even more so because there are not only hard limits on their size but political limits. (We cut taxes on the rich, so sooner or later, the government will be forced to spend less.)
So, if any administration is told that they must start spending less, right now, then some programs must be stopped or reduced. All of these programs are perceived as being of some value, so no matter what they cut, someone will be upset and angry. Sports and busing, for example, are (at least in some opinions) goods. But if local voters won't pay taxes to support everything a school wants to do, it's better to cut sports and busing than math and science. If the feds cut meat inspection, and meat gets scarcer and more costly, the experience of the Great Depression and World War 2 indicates that the result will be fewer fatal heart attacks. It's not going to kill anyone to eat fewer hamburgers (indeed, it might eventually cut Medicare's costs a bit), and it would annoy a lot of entitled voters who would then yell at their congresscritters, so from either strategic approach that is a rationally selected place to start cutting. But of course it is about .0001% of the budget, I suppose, so there will need to be plenty more cut as well.
Are you actually READING the article? This is CONGRESS, NOT President Obama!
Reading is Fundamental.
That's easily remedied. Severely cut the imperial White House and unneeded Secret Service budgets instead. Then take money from the budgets of the Senate and the Congress; none of these people are doing their jobs. They are the cause of the out of balance budget; they should feel the pain the most.
The memo is flotsam scare tactics. The FDA doesn't do its job anyway; cancel the whole damned agency.
Blu N Gold,I don't know why your comments were ignored as I believe that you hit the nail on the head.
and once again the working class gets screwed....take back the gov't's un-needed and undeserved pay raises..then cut back on the dea since they really don't accomplish much anyway...then thin out the INS...or let them shoot the illeagals crossing the border...stop paying able bodied lazy ass's welfare...you get the idea.alot of places that should be cut...
WTF is WRONG with Congress!!!???
DISMANTLE Congress...bunch of MORONS!