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redrobin

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Rolling furlough may ease meat industry pain from US budget cuts

Reuters | Updated: 02/26/2013

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The Obama administration may institute a "rolling" furlough to keep meat plants open during automatic budget cuts rather than idle all 8,400 U.S. meat inspectors at the same time, a House subcommittee chairman said on Tuesday.

Meat packing and processing plants would have to close if all inspectors were furloughed at the same time to comply with the cuts. By law, plants cannot ship meat without the Agriculture Department inspection seal.

The administration estimates some $10 billion in production would be lost if inspectors were laid off en masse for two weeks, or their agency's share of cuts. Stores and restaurants could run short of meat temporarily.

"It appears now it's a rolling furlough," Texas Republican Michael Conaway, chairman of a House Agriculture subcommittee, told reporters. "No one plant would be shut down."

The timing and assignment of furloughs would be spread across the country to minimize the impact on processors, said Conaway, who asked the USDA last week to explain in detail how it would apply the budget cuts. A USDA spokesman was not immediately available for comment.

The USDA also did not respond to questions about how the agency would approach possible furloughs at its Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), which among other things generates prices used as benchmarks for livestock futures at CME Group Inc . The USDA has not mentioned AMS in its comments about the sequester.

Conaway said the administration has not replied in writing to his request for information about meat inspections and the White House budget office "owes us an explanation." The budget office was the first to raise the prospect of a furlough of all 8,400 inspectors and a resultant meat industry shutdown.

Although the spending cuts are due to take effect on Friday, it could be weeks or months before the meat industry is directly affected. Meat inspectors are guaranteed at least 30 days' notice of a furlough.

The USDA has not specified a date when furloughs would begin, but has insisted they are unavoidable.

"This is a direct prescription from Congress to reduce every line item," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said last week.

Up to one-third of the USDA's 100,000 employees may be affected by furloughs. The USDA says the cuts would deny food aid to 600,000 pregnant women, new mothers and infants and also force closure of hundreds of Forest Service campgrounds, picnic areas and visitors centers during the spring and summer.

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hypocritexposer

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Looks like someone sat down with Barry, with a box of crayons, and drew some half assed economic graphs.


Just last year, Barry was looking at cutting "billions of waste, without affecting the economy". A year later, he thinks he's up for re-election, pandering to the crowds of food stamp users, buying freezer beef.
 
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hypocritexposer said:
Looks like someone sat down with Barry, with a box of crayons, and drew some half assed economic graphs.


Just last year, Barry was looking at cutting "billions of waste, without affecting the economy". A year later, he thinks he's up for re-election, pandering to the crowds of food stamp users, buying freezer beef.

The problem comes from the fact that the law does not allow Obama/Administration to go to areas of big waste- it just cuts a set percentage be cut from every line item-- rather it has any waste or not- rather it be good government or bad government...

"This is a direct prescription from Congress to reduce every line item," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said last week.

That is the reason even Paul Ryan is working on a bill to give Obama more leeway on where to make the spending cuts...
 

hypocritexposer

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Oldtimer said:
hypocritexposer said:
Looks like someone sat down with Barry, with a box of crayons, and drew some half assed economic graphs.


Just last year, Barry was looking at cutting "billions of waste, without affecting the economy". A year later, he thinks he's up for re-election, pandering to the crowds of food stamp users, buying freezer beef.

The problem comes from the fact that the law does not allow Obama/Administration to go to areas of big waste- it just cuts a set percentage be cut from every line item-- rather it has any waste or not- rather it be good government or bad government...

"This is a direct prescription from Congress to reduce every line item," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said last week.

That is the reason even Paul Ryan is working on a bill to give Obama more leeway on where to make the spending cuts...


so what is the "line item reduction". in regards to "meat inspection", or "illegal immigration housing"?

:lol:


they are "across the board cuts", by dept., they are not "by line".

the DOD can cut waste and duplication, instead of civilian staff, liike Leanin H.


but Barry want's to make it sound like the "end of the US, as we know it", so he makes it personal. Meanwhile, he advocated for the same type of cuts, just last year, and was the "smartest President evah", when he did. Almost "clintonian"

I didn't think you were this stupid OT...but, if you really believe Barry's hype, then maybe you are really "that stupid"
 
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hypocritexposer said:
Oldtimer said:
hypocritexposer said:
Looks like someone sat down with Barry, with a box of crayons, and drew some half assed economic graphs.


Just last year, Barry was looking at cutting "billions of waste, without affecting the economy". A year later, he thinks he's up for re-election, pandering to the crowds of food stamp users, buying freezer beef.

The problem comes from the fact that the law does not allow Obama/Administration to go to areas of big waste- it just cuts a set percentage be cut from every line item-- rather it has any waste or not- rather it be good government or bad government...

"This is a direct prescription from Congress to reduce every line item," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said last week.

That is the reason even Paul Ryan is working on a bill to give Obama more leeway on where to make the spending cuts...


so what is the "line item reduction". in regards to "meat inspection", or "illegal immigration housing"?

:lol:


they are "across the board cuts", by dept., they are not "by line".

the DOD can cut waste and duplication, instead of civilian staff, liike Leanin H.


but Barry want's to make it sound like the "end of the US, as we know it", so he makes it personal. Meanwhile, he advocated for the same type of cuts, just last year, and was the "smartest President evah", when he did. Almost "clintonian"

I didn't think you were this stupid OT...but, if you really believe Barry's hype, then maybe you are really "that stupid"

So then why is Ryan working on a bill/law to allow Obama some flexibility in the cuts decision... :???:

Or these Governors talking about wanting more flexibility :???:

Of course, the White House is saying tax increases would be better than the full effect of sequestration, and Huffington Post has quotes from two Republican governors and one Democratic governor criticizing the sequester:

“We are budget balancers. There is an art to it,” said North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple (R), talking to HuffPost at the National Governors Association meeting in Washington, D.C. this weekend. “The worst thing is to have no flexibility.”

Dalrymple said governors were briefed at the meeting that the cuts would come from individual federal line items that would flow down to the states, a plan he said he feared wouldn’t give state officials enough control over how their states were impacted.

New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan (D), meanwhile, told HuffPost the real focus should be on passing Obama’s proposal, not on how states should be preparing for cuts that will hurt the middle class.

The sequester “is going to stop our economic recovery in its tracks,” Hassan said.

….

“We don’t like taxes. We don’t like increasing taxes,” Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) said during a Sunday appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “But we know we have to be pragmatic. We know there has to be some kind of compromise, but dang it, they need to get the job done. They don’t need to leave the public out there hanging.”
 

hypocritexposer

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I told you this before..."give obama what he wants"

Give him the dictatorial powers he is craving. Nod your head and say "yes sir". That's what SCOTUS is doing at this point.

Let him make his own mistakes. which he will surely do.

This will damage the Democratic party for generations to come, and prove that "Liberalism/progressivism" is a destructive power that damages the middle class.

IMO...let him have whatever he wants, it won't damage the Country any more than Barry already desires.


You've probably already seen this, seeing as you hang out at your "cult website", and get your "progressive talking points" from there, but...

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