A NATION OF SHEEP WILL BEGET A GOVERNMENT OF WOLVES
Really? Upwards of 22% ‘real unemployment’, 45 million Americans on foodstamps, the impending nuclear collapse of most global currencies (including the dollar), and the pResident of the White House and his ‘do-anything-but-productive-work’ staff are worried about the image of the lowly Christmas Tree.
Really????? It appears that he is either begging to be fired or thumbing his nose at those that might possibly consider an attempt at impeaching him over any one of a number of the controversies surrounding the mayhem he has created since being installed.
This ranks right up there with the Federal Reserve ‘losing’ $9 Trillion Dollars, the continued bonuses and bailouts at Fannie and Freddie, and borrowing money from the Big Banks to bail them out.
I think he needs to golf MORE and take his entire staff with him…and the Federal Reserve Bankers…and…the entire congress…and…
President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees.
In the Federal Register of November 8, 2011, Acting Administrator of Agricultural Marketing David R. Shipman announced that the Secretary of Agriculture will appoint a Christmas Tree Promotion Board. The purpose of the Board is to run a “program of promotion, research, evaluation, and information designed to strengthen the Christmas tree industry’s position in the marketplace; maintain and expend existing markets for Christmas trees; and to carry out programs, plans, and projects designed to provide maximum benefits to the Christmas tree industry” (7 CFR 1214.46(n)). And the program of “information” is to include efforts to “enhance the image of Christmas trees and the Christmas tree industry in the United States” (7 CFR 1214.10).
To pay for the new Federal Christmas tree image improvement and marketing program, the Department of Agriculture imposed a 15-cent fee on all sales of fresh Christmas trees by sellers of more than 500 trees per year (7 CFR 1214.52). And, of course, the Christmas tree sellers are free to pass along the 15-cent Federal fee to consumers who buy their Christmas trees.
Acting Administrator Shipman had the temerity to say the 15-cent mandatory Christmas tree fee “is not a tax nor does it yield revenue for the Federal government” (76 CFR 69102). The Federal government mandates that the Christmas tree sellers pay the 15-cents per tree, whether they want to or not. The Federal government directs that the revenue generated by the 15-cent fee goes to the Board appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the Christmas tree program established by the Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. President, that’s a new 15-cent tax to pay for a Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees.
Gee, who is it that buys Christmas trees, oh that’s right Christians.
The thought had occurred to me also. This guy can barely cover his hatred of the corporate owned moos…