From the you’ve got to be kidding files, and no I’m not, Obama’s big socialist nanny state strikes again with one of the most asinine regulations in this nation’s history. There is nothing safe from Obama’s long arm of big government, including goat herders.
The Obama administration is setting new workplace regulations to assist foreign workers who fill goat herding positions in the U.S., including employee-paid cell phones and comfy beds.
These new special procedures issued by the Labor Department must be followed by employers who want to hire temporary agricultural foreign workers to perform sheep herding or goat herding activities. It describes strict rules for sleeping quarters, lighting, food storage, bathing, laundry, cooking and new rules for the counters where food is prepared.
There has never been a time in my life with this much government overreach stripping away freedom and liberty and replacing it with central government nanny statism. This is not America anymore. Behold:
“Instead of remedying the problem, the regulations make it that much harder,” Katz insisted. “We may need a whole set of regulations just to define what a comfortable bed is. I imagine it’s not straw.”
The new lighting standards say that in areas where it is not feasible to provide electrical service such as tents or mobile trailers, lanterns must be provided. “Kerosene wick lights meet the definition of lantern,” the regulations say.
“When workers or their families are permitted or required to cook in their individual unit, a space shall be provided with adequate lighting and ventilation.”
“Wall surfaces next to all food preparation and cooking areas shall be of nonabsorbent, easy-to-clean material. Wall surfaces next to cooking areas shall be of fire-resistant material,” the regulations say.
“It makes you wonder,” Katz said, “how they ever did this before the government got involved?”
“Who knew we needed all of this federal help for herding goats?” Katz quipped.
Things that make you go, hmmm. I bet this will be the last time we see a Socialist, oops, they like to be called Democrat, president and majority for a long, long time.
I don’t know about you, if you’ve been institutionalised yet, or not. I haven’t, and I see all this government not to “help” but to hinder and it has turned me in to someone who hates the government and see’s it as an enemy, and I’m suspicious of everything it does. I’ve never felt this way before. Not even one full term of Obama and the Democrats, and this is what I’ve become.
Under the Obama Administration, the nanny state has imposed 75 new major regulations with annual costs of $38 billion.
“This captures what is wrong with government,” Katz said. “I could not have made this up.”
Amen.