Cutbacks

Posted by Nogger - a legend in his own mind at 09:19 | Categorized as

10/04/11 -- An eleventh hour deal late on Friday night bought US President Obama's Democrats a weeks grace in which to get swingeing budget cuts through Congress.

The Republicans agree that budget cuts must be made, they just don't agree with the Democrats on where. If Friday's late stop-gap deal hadn't gone through then "hundreds of thousands of government employees" might have turned up for work on Monday to find the closed signs hanging up on their office doors, according to media reports.

One of the areas where cuts are likely is within the budget of our very own mates the USDA. The weekly Monday crop progress report may be one of the first things to go, and there is even talk of the June planted acreage report also being cut.

Which gives me an idea. Sponsorship. The USDA's weekly and monthly crop reports could be sponsored by the Muppet Show, with Miss Piggy obviously responsible for the hog reports. I think it's a winner, get me Obama on line two....

Further reading: US Budget Deal Avoids Government Shutdown

Weekly crop reports threatened