You’ve probably heard the old saying about lift a rock and watch the bugs scurry around looking for a place to hide. Well, what happens when the government builds a vault over the rock to prevent anyone from looking under said rock?
It seems the Dems did just that, metaphorically speaking, in order to hide all the fat cats sitting on their asses collecting farm subsidies. Mark Tapscott over at The Washington Examiner has the story,
Every couple of years, using the Federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and often only after overcoming official resistance, EWG would update the database and there would be a flurry of news stories about celebrities, professional athletes, journalists, and others who clearly were not farmers being paid millions of tax dollars by USDA not to farm.
Well, you can forget about updating that story any time soon because USDA is no longer updating the database. Seems that the Democratic Congress in 2008 changed the law that previously required the department to maintain the database to say that doing so was merely optional.
You know, there are just some things that warm the cockles of my heart. Seeing guys like Sam Donaldson, Scottie Pippen, and David Rockefeller use the system to line their pockets is just so gratifying. Maybe Sam can even buy a new toupee with all that green. Lord knows, he needs a new one.
