[RealJustme]

Email tells feds to make sequester as painful as promised

The Obama administration denied an appeal for flexibility in lessening the sequester’s effects, with an email this week appearing to show officials in Washington that because they already had promised the cuts would be devastating, they now have to follow through on that.

In the email sent Monday by Charles Brown, an official with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service office in Raleigh, N.C., Mr. Brown asked “if there was any latitude” in how to spread the sequester cuts across the region to lessen the impacts on fish inspections.

He said he was discouraged by officials in Washington, who gave him this reply: “We have gone on record with a notification to Congress and whoever else that ‘APHIS would eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry, unless they provide funding to cover the costs.’ So it is our opinion that however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be.”

The administration earlier had warned that safety in supplies of beef, pork and poultry could drop this year because slaughterhouse inspectors will have to be furloughed.

Ms. Noem told Mr. Vilsack the email made it sound like the administration was sacrificing flexibility in order to justify dire predictions.

Although meat inspectors which are considered the most vital employees in the department are being layed off the agency has posted 24 help-wanted ads since Sunday including 22 student internships, one ad seeking a clerk in a New York office, and one ad seeking three “insect production workers” to grow bollworms in Phoenix.

This email confirms what many Americans have suspected: The Obama administration is doing everything they can to make sure their worst predictions come true and to maximize the pain of the Sequester cuts for political gain,” said Rep. Tim Griffin. Federal employees are actually being told they are to insure they don't contradict what Obama said the impact would be, they are being warned not to attempt to manage the cuts in the least disruptive way, they must have the impact promised.

[Leroy]

Yea, the Republicans gave them full ability to choose how to apply the sequester cuts and both Obama and the Democrats rejected it - Obama doesn't want to take responsibility for ANY cuts, only spending increases.

[BilboBagend]

Oh, you mean President Obama passed up the opportunity to be blemd by Republicans for all the ill effects of the sequester while Republicans failed to do anything at all.

Aw, boo hoo. Just more illegitimate political rhetoric as always. Just more liar leroy dishonest shit as always.

[Leroy]

No, I mean that Obama could have made the impact minor, on the tax payers, but, he has no leadership ability, only THUGABILITY, so he would not know what to do with the power offered him. He needs the country to suffer in order to get what he wants.