Incomplete list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct announcements for August 2017:
Hurricane Harvey slamming Texas and Louisiana. Texas getting record level rain/floods. According to federal law produce grown on land hit by flooding cannot be sold for human consumption!
California: Who’s the fascist now you commie pinkos? Leftist pinko bullies introduce a state bill that would make it a crime not to call a transgender person by their chosen pronoun! (whatever happened to “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me!”?)
Florida: Tax-sucking Abacus Technology laying off 388 people due to its NASA contract at Kennedy Space Center ending! Also at Kennedy Space Center, Vencore eliminating 55 jobs between the end of September and Xmas.
Idaho: “Effective immediately” the state Department of Labor Director Ken Edmunds resigned. It could be the result of a former Labor Department employee suing the department because his personal cell phone was illegally searched! It turns out the former employee was a whistle-blower trying to save taxpayer dollars by revealing the Department of Labor was violating state purchasing laws and wasting government resources (for which he was fired, firing an employee for revealing the truth is a violation of federal law). However, Right to Work (you over) ‘christian’ gov’na Butch Otter swears his Labor Department director did not resign over the federal lawsuit. Canyon County reporting a record number of people being detained on ‘involuntary mental health holds’. They set a record in July of 123 people on metal health holds, at a cost to taxpayers of $153-thousand USD. Canyon County is now demanding state leaders spend more money building a new crisis center in their county. So far the state is spending several millions of tax dollars on four crisis centers throughout The Gem State.
Illinois: Semi-Truck maker Navistar shutting down its medium-duty 9/10 liter engine factory in Melrose Park, 170 jobs gone by April 2018! It’s blamed on emission regulations: “Looking at the financial impact it would take to keep this engine compliant with Environmental Protection Agency standards, it just wasn’t in the cards.”
Louisiana: Oil industry supply company Knight Energy Holdings now chapter 11 bankrupt busted after the CEO and two county policemen were charged with staging a false drug bust in order to frame the CEO’s brother!
New York: New ‘green’ packaging maker Evocative Design suddenly laid off 18 people, despite getting a taxpayer funded $9.1-million USD grant from U.S. Defense Department’s DARPA. Tax-sucking nuclear contractor Lutech Resources suddenly laid off 195 people, due to sudden contract cancellation by Aptim! Tax-sucking nuclear decontamination company Aptim suddenly laid off 167 people, blaming it on the sudden cancellation of a contract with Exelon Generation Company! Federaly controlled Brookhaven National Laboratory eliminating 175 jobs by the end of the year, and don’t blame Donald Trump (like some leftist news media are) as the layoffs were being planned before he became president (which means Obama is to blame)!
North Carolina: State taxpayers screwed as industrial hi-tech battery maker Alevo now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and dead, saying “This decision was driven by the formidable challenges of bringing a new technology into commercial production and lacking the financial wherewithal to continue on through repeated manufacturing delays.” It must be noted the company got $163-thousand taxpayer dollars for the express purpose of training up new employees.
Pennsylvania: The Tax Foundation concluded its study on Philadelphia’s so called sugary drink tax (most are made with GMO corn syrup and don’t contain any sugar); the tax now makes soda pop more expensive than beer because the tax is 24 times higher than the beer tax! Isn’t beer made by fermenting sugars? The study also revealed that expected tax collections are way below what the Utopianist city leaders expected. And to add fuel to the anti-tax fire, market research firm Catalina discovered that people in Philadelphia are leaving the city just to buy their favorite soda-pop, so much so that tax revenues are going to come up short of expectations by at least 15%. Tax-sucking nuclear decontamination company Aptim suddenly laid off almost 3-hundred people! Tax-sucking nuclear contractor Lutech Resources suddenly laid off 90 people.
South Carolina: Formerly Japan owned (Toshiba) U.S. tax-sucking bankrupt nuclear power plant builder Westinghouse suddenly laid off 850 people! Westinghouse now hit with a lawsuit claiming the tax-sucking company was violating federal labor laws.
Tennessee: Federaly controlled Brookhaven National Laboratory eliminating 350 jobs by the end of the year, and don’t blame Donald Trump (like some leftist news media are) as the layoffs were being planned before he became president (which means Obama is to blame)!
Texas: The city of Amarillo laid off eight Info-Tech employees, and closed a vacant position, in an attempt to save 900-thousand tax dollars.
Washington DC: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) forced by a federal judge to spend taxpayer dollars on mental health exams for illegal immigrants.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Government Shenanigans July 2017: “THEY GAVE ME NO REASON FOR CLOSING IT”
ObamaCare ACA Death Spiral, August 2017: “HAS OUTLIVED ITS USEFUL LIFE”
Dumbing Down the U.S. of A., August 2017: “WE MOVED QUICKLY AND QUIETLY.”
