Posted on 06/21/2018 3:35:02 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Office of Management & Budget Director Mick Mulvaney gave an intricate and often eccentric explanation of redundancy and overlap in federal bureaucracy in a presentation that stunned the president and the press.
"I call this the 'drain the swamp' cabinet meeting," Mulvaney said, adding that it has been about 100 years since the federal government was reorganized at this scale.
He criticized the "Byzantine nature" by which the government regulates, creating headaches for business owners, employees and taxpayers.
"If you have a cheese pizza, it's governed by the Food & Drug Administration. If you put a pepperoni on it, it's governed by the [Department of Agriculture]," he said.
"If you have a [live] chicken, it's governed by the USDA. If that chicken lays an egg, it's governed by the FDA, but if you break the egg and make an omelette, that's again governed by the USDA."
He said that a hot dog is regulated simultaneously by two government agencies and said that one of the most intricate and "bizarre" cases of regulations involves saltwater fish.
Mulvaney said that a salmon in the ocean is governed by the Department of Commerce, but that when the salmon is swimming upstream into freshwater where it breeds, it is governed by Ryan Zinke and the Department of the Interior.
On its way to the breeding grounds, it encounters a fish ladder -- a device used to help fish navigate waterfalls and other impediments -- that is governed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Sir, understand your frustration but there is a place for a certain amount of government. I believe the motto “minimum but adequate” applies here. We need that minimum but adequate government provided for in the Constitution. That is the goal I work for each and every day even though I feel kinda lonely sometimes. :) God bless!
Perfect!
Cheese pizza? We used. To call it a Dairy Pizza. Surely this must be governed by the dairymen’s association!
We did a tour of the east two years ago.
NYC where George Washington was sworn in.
Philly where congress met downstairs and the senate upstairs in the small city courthouse.
Then to D.C.
Walking the square block that is filled with a 5 story building - just for Agriculture - I mentioned to my kids “Do you think those guys back in Philly had any idea it would turn into this? Thousands and thousands of people, just to tell a farmer how to farm?”
A little bit of history.
President Abraham Lincoln sent out tax collectors to farms and manors to inventory equipment, livestock, buildings, and so on to assess property tax.
One taxpayer objected to listing his horse-drawn buggy as taxable as it was no longer in service, that it was not in use and should not be listed as taxable.
The Lincoln Administration’s response was:
“IF IT MOVES, TAX IT”.
Reorganizing them is just re-arranging the deck chairs
Not really. Food Stamps/SNAP has support because Inner city Democrats an farm district Republicans gang up to subsidize both Agri-Business and Navigators employed by social service agencies that are the backbone of the inner city political organizations .... replacing the churches ... unless the churches prostitute themselves.
Bye moving SNAP from Dept of Ag to HHS the mutual support for two inefficient, wasteful programs is cut. As long as they were in the same Department, they were the epitome of quick sand in the swamp.
I’m sure this will do SOME good, but over all, we need to be eliminating whole departments. Until that happens the debt will continue to get bigger & sooner or later we’re going to be Venezuela.
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