{"id":34811,"date":"2013-03-06T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34811"},"modified":"2013-03-05T21:48:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T03:48:06","slug":"minnesota-laboratory-of-progressive-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34811","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota:  Laboratory Of Progressive Extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Administration is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/mar\/5\/email-tells-feds-make-sequester-painful-promised\/\">working to make sure the &#8220;Sequestration&#8221; hurts you &#8211; yes, you &#8211; as much as possible<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration denied an appeal for flexibility in lessening the sequester\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cif there was any latitude\u201d in how to spread the sequester cuts across the region to lessen the impacts on fish inspections.<\/p>\n<p>SEE RELATED: Democrats pull out race card in sequester game<\/p>\n<p>He said he was discouraged by officials in Washington, who gave him this reply: \u201cWe have gone on record with a notification to Congress and whoever else that \u2018APHIS would eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry, unless they provide funding to cover the costs.\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where have we seen this before?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20505\">Right here in Minnesota<\/a>, during the 2011 State Budget shutdown, when Minnesota bureaucrats did their level best to make the shutdown disproportionally onerous.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota: where next years&#8217; stupid Democrat ideas are tried out this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Administration is working to make sure the &#8220;Sequestration&#8221; hurts you &#8211; yes, you &#8211; as much as possible: The Obama administration denied an appeal for flexibility in lessening the sequester\u2019s effects, with an email this week appearing to show officials in Washington that because they already had promised the cuts would be devastating, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34836,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34811\/revisions\/34836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}