Homemade Lunches Bad, Chicken Nuggets Good

We have not weighed in on the issue of the North Carolina four year old who had her lunch taken away and given chicken nuggets instead.  Yes, that did occur!  The child's mother had packed her a lunch with turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, apple juice and potato chips. The government inspector, who still have not been identified, determined this combination did not meet healthy food requirements and insisted the child pay for and eat the chicken nuggets.  Talk about government intrusion into our lives!

We must stop these "goody two shoes" from imposing their views on our lives. If they had been around 25 years ago, we would have all been required to each margarine which now has determined to be one step removed from plastic! Eggs would have been banned however, now we find out that they are good to eat.  All red meat would have been banned but who knows tomorrow we might find out that moderate amounts of meat actually is good for us. 

The science of nutrition has changed over the years and things that were bad are now good and vice versa. Our belief is that all food is good for you as long as it is in moderation. Water is good for you but if you drink too much, you drown! The same thing goes for anything that you put in your mouth, too much is not good.  

Today, we seem to think that science can solve all of our problems and scientists are all knowing. It is far from that and we must become much more skeptical of misleading or junk science.  Just as Alar, (a chemical that was sprayed on apples to keep apples on the trees longer) was supposed to cause cancer. Meryl Streep made a tearful testimony in front of Congress. It all turns out to be a lot of hullaboo about nothing.

Science has made great progress in the past 100 years. Many diseases have been virtually wiped out. However, we cannot worship at the alter of the scientist as many are driven by motives which are not in society's best interests. They have their own agenda.

So it goes with the lunch programs the First Lady is promoting.  Who knows if the current rendition of the ideal food program will be determined to be the right combination. So when government officials take the food away from a child and force her to eat some "manufactured" chicken nugget, it that the best we can do? We don't think so and neither should anyone else.

The government has no right to tell us what we can eat and what we can feed our children. If we allow this, in the future there will be no candy, no sweets, no junk food and no red meat,  only thing left will be lettuce to which we are allergic.  Things don't look good for us in the future.

Tell Mrs. Obama, to feed her children the way she feels they should be and to leave the rest of us alone!

Conservative Tom

A Preview Of Life Under Full-Blown Tyranny

February 17, 2012 by Bob Livingston 

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At West Hoke Elementary School, preschoolers are being forced to supplement their homemade lunches with meals provided by their school.

Imagine a world in which the decisions you make for your children are irrelevant. It’s a world in which the state, rather than the parents, determines what your child must eat for lunch.

Parents in Hoke County, N.C., are experiencing it firsthand, according to Civitas Institute. At West Hoke Elementary School, preschoolers are being forced to supplement their homemade lunches with meals provided by their school because a government inspector has determined the lunches they bring from home don’t meet Federal guidelines.

One mother, who asked not to be identified, told Civitas that she made her daughter a lunch that contained a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, apple juice and potato chips (that’s reasonably healthful, if you leave out the chips). A state inspector assessing the pre-K program at the school said the girl also needed a vegetable, so the inspector ordered a full school lunch tray for her. So while the 4-year-old was still allowed to eat her home lunch, she was forced to take a helping of processed, chemical-laden chicken nuggets, dead milk, a fruit and a vegetable to supplement her sack lunch.

According to Civitas:

The government inspector was from the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised program at the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program gives schools a grade based on standards that include USDA (Department of Agriculture) meal guidelines enforced by the N.C. Division of Early Childhood Development.

The nutrition standards for pre-K lunch require milk, two servings of fruit or vegetable, bread or grains and a meat or meat alternative. The school didn’t receive a high grade from the January assessment because the home-made lunches didn’t meet those guidelines.

The mother said she sent a note to her child’s teacher asking that her child not be required to eat anything that doesn’t come out of her lunch box. But the school continues to require her to take a school meal, even after she complained to cafeteria workers.

She then sent a statement to State Representative G.L. Pridgen (R-Robeson) detailing her complaint. Pridgen says he was shocked to hear it. Pridgen has since learned this is a nationwide practice based on Federal guidelines, according to Civitas.

Contrary to popular belief, the USDA is not interested the health of Americans. If it were, it wouldn’t be making war on raw milk sellers and organic food producers and the natural supplement industry, nor would it allow Monsanto free reign to contaminate crops with genetically modified organisms or food processors like General Mills to make specious claims on the health benefits of their foods.

Michelles' Let Them Eat Cake Trip To Aspen

In a time of economic doldrums, millions losing homes, trillions in debt, the First Lady goes on a skiing vacation.  Isn't that wonderful?  We guess that she does not think of herself as part of the 99%! Have you taken your Aspen ski trip this year?  We sure have not!

This is just more of the tin ear the Obama Administration shows the country.  It is wrong 

and very much Marie Antoinette-ish.   We have no problem with the President and his 

family taking a vacation or two, but this is ridiculous. Last month a week in Hawaii and 

now  a trip to Colorado!

Hopefully, we can send the Obamas on a permanent vacation when he is booted out of 

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue! Are you with us?

Conservative Tom

Michelle Obama Decides to Ski Aspen

by KEITH KOFFLER on FEBRUARY 18, 2012, 8:17 AM

Michelle Obama has embarked on a skiing vacation with her daughters in Aspen, Colorado, according to the Aspen Daily News.

The first lady, who just returned last month from 17 days of relaxation in Hawaii, is skiing in Colorado on Presidents’ Day Weekend for the second year in a row. Last year she went to Vail.

Michelle’s decision to ski out West again instead of hitting slopes closer to Washington would seem an inopportune choice for a first lady who is helping her husband campaign on issues of “fairness.”

The Obama campaign has set itself up as the defender of the poor and the middle class against the “One Percent,” a theme which clashes with the image a first lady who is taking frequent and exclusive vacations.

Just last August, she sojourned on Martha’s Vineyard, and the month before she travelled to southern Africa for a trip that mixed official business with tourist outings like an African safari. In July 2010, she took an exorbitant excursion to the southern coast of Spain, flying out with friends and family on a large jet that often serves as Air Force 2 and then staying at a ritzy hotel.

What’s more, as the government struggles to cut the deficit, the symbolism of a first lady jetting out to Aspen with a security entourage at taxpayers’ expense to ski would seem to send the wrong message about cutting back on spending.

For her last two Hawaii vacations, Michelle left separately from her husband atextra cost to taxpayers in order to ensure she got the full vacation while the president was forced to remain in Washington a few extra days to finish work with Congress.

President Obama last summer called for “an attitude of shared sacrifice” to solve the nation’s deficit woes.

Michelle this weekend is reportedly staying at the Aspen home of a wealthy Obama backer from Chicago. She held a fundraiser at the same residence last July.

Gallup Reports Unemployment Different From Obama

In the latest Gallup report on unemployment, it shows a dramatically different view than the data calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  There are several reasons, notably, Gallup does not seasonally adjust, uses 18+ rather than 16+, and does interviews rather than data from employers. The interesting fact we garnered from the data is that the unemployed, underemployed and fully employed data does not vary significantly over the past two years which concurs with our observations. 


Could the Bureau of Labor Statistics be making up the numbers to please their bosses? Would they really be so political? We think so and have made a bet that the rate for unemployment as reported by the government will be around 5% by the time the election comes around. Are we wasting our money?


What are your impressions? Go to the following link for the story.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/125639/gallup-daily-workforce.aspx

Traffic Control Insanity

Today, in the Blaze, we see a local school zone sign that is the definition of insanity. Can you imagine reading the six different times that are on the sign while driving down the road, even at 25 mph. Instead of creating clarity, this causes confusion with an added bonus of  inattention to the road while trying to determine your speed and the time. Dumb idea. This is government at its worst--trying to micromanage traffic speeds and instead causing problems. 

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WHITE LAKE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (The Blaze/AP) — An unusual school zone speed limit sign in suburban Detroit has drawn the attention of an irked driver.

Greg Smith tells The Oakland Press of Pontiac that he noticed the sign recently — which was put up on Jan. 12 — in Oakland County’s White Lake Township that lists six separate times when drivers should slow down to 25 mph on school days.

Smith says drivers “practically have to come to a stop to read it.” An elementary, middle and high school all are nearby.

Greg Smith and the odd sign. (AP)

Police Chief Ed Harris says a meeting is being called with the White Lake Township supervisor, the school district and the county road commission about the sign. Harris says the township didn’t put it up but is trying to resolve the matter.

“I’m thinking of printing out the speeds and attaching it to my dashboard,” Smith concluded.

Another Obama Warning

We have been saying some of these same things, it is comforting to know that we are not the "village idiots" that the opposition would like to make you think.  We "patriots" must continue being the sentinel in the night, the Paul and Paulette Reveres of our generation.  It is time to stand up and be counted! If we do not stand up, we will have to live with the outcome of our passivity. America needs all of us!  Are you prepared to join the fight? The following piece we received from a friend. There was no attribution, so if you wrote this, please let us know and we will credit you.  We wish we had written it! Conservative Tom Pathfinder says: Could 2012 be America’s Last Presidential Election? Food for thought. I've asked this question to a number of people and most them respond as if I were crazy for asking.  They tell me that this is America, land of the free and that there will always be elections.  I tell them that we are no longer the land of the free and that if Obama gets re-elected in 2012, that this just may be America’s last election. In the past three years, the Obama administration has been very carefully crafting the nation for a political take over by his Marxist regime and this isn't just my opinion. Popular radio talk show host Michael Savage is the son of Russian immigrants and is very familiar with Soviet and European history. Savage warned his listeners this week saying, “I have to tell you that if this man, God forbid, is the next president of the United States, we’re going to be living in something along the lines of – people say Europe.  I don’t believe it’s going to be like Europe – I think it will be closer to Chavez’s South American dictatorship. “This is the most corrupt, incompetent, dangerous tyrannical administration in American history.  It’s not politics as usual.  It’s not just Democrats versus Republicans.  Obama has a long history of being at odds with American values and with America itself and the core principles of this country.  They don’t want government-sponsored opinions.  They only want government-sponsored ‘Pravda.’  That’s exactly what the government-media complex tells you on a daily basis – nothing but the government-media complex party line.  Pay attention.  Your freedom may be at stake.” Over the weekend, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum told a small group of people in an Iowa coffee house that, “Barack Obama is not incompetent, ladies and gentleman.  He knows exactly what he’s doing and why he’s doing it.  He sees America differently than you see America. [Obama] has gone out of his way to divide this country in a way I haven’t seen since the Great Depression when Franklin Roosevelt went around to divide his country.  That’s his hero.  What makes America great [in Obama’s mind is that] the government takes money from somebody and gives it to somebody else.  No, that’s what makes America, France.”  With his control over the Executive and Judicial branches of the government, the stage is set for a complete takeover of the government.  Think about it. Since taking office, instead of helping the economy, Obama has purposely escalated the economic crisis by plunging the country into unprecedented debt.  He has a number of programs that are designed to go into effect in January 2013, just in time for his second term of office.  The economic burden and increased taxes on everyone will be enough to cause the final economic collapse of the country.  As soon as that happens, Obama declares Martial Law and assumes dictatorial control of the nation. The Department of Justice has already been subverting federal laws to strip us of a number of freedoms.  The Supreme Court and many of the other federal courts have been seeded with socialistic liberal judges that will rule in Obama’s favor on virtually anything, thus ending constitutional rule and law. He’s already changing the face of America’s military.  Allowing homosexuals to openly serve along with changing the retirement program is causing many conservative military leaders to resign commissions and leave the military.  Some Pentagon officials are also noting that an increase in the enlistment of radical Muslims into the US military where they get all the training they need on weapons and defense systems.  We have no idea how many of them there are in the armed forces or in what positions they may hold. Obama has been wielding executive powers this past year as if he were already a dictator.  When Congress is not doing his bidding, he simply bypasses them and used an executive order to accomplish it anyway.  This has set the stage for his disbandment of Congress. He would not be the first world leader to take control of a nation and disband the legislative branch of government. He has been effectively using the media to anesthetize the public to the dangers he poses.  Like a patient being prepped for surgery, people are numb to the changes and won’t have a clue what took place until they wake up in recovery and realize that free America has been removed and replaced with a regime that may parallel those of Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Chavez and Castro. For the sake of our children and grandchildren, I earnestly pray that we are spared from what seems a certain future and that Obama is overwhelmingly defeated in 2012.  Otherwise, heaven help us.

Is The Obama Administration Doctoring Statistics For Political Reasons?

We have wondered how the market, the unemployment statistics and other indicators seem to be getting better while looking at our neighborhood and locale, it doesn't seem so.
Dick Morris writes a fine article that validates our feelings.  It is well worth reading.

It all leads to our understanding that the statistics are being adjusted to make things look better to help Obama get re-elected.  So much for the most ethical administration in the history of the country!

It is time to let Mr. Obama go back to being a Constitutional instructor, maybe he will learn something this time through!

Conservative Tom




President Obama, faced with no recovery from the recession as he enters an election year, has come up with a handy political gimmick: Fake the statistics.

The economic data that portend recovery are totally and completely inventions of Obama's political operation. The reality is that no recovery is taking place!

Economist James Fitzgibbon, of the Highlander Fund, explains how cooked the economic statistics on which the president bases his claims of recovery really are.

Begin with "gains" in the stock market. Fitzgibbon explains that they are no indication of changes in the public mood because the public isn't doing the investing anymore. He notes that HFT (high frequency trade computers) now "account for 80 percent [of the market's] daily business. No one else is left because they lost their money in 2008 and the public has fled the market ... Total NYSE volume is 67 percent lower on average than in 2008. Volume is 29 percent lower this year compared to 2011. The prices [have] no serious meaning."

Have consumers, as alleged, started borrowing again? Not really. Fitzgibbon explains that "credit use has surged only because the Obama administration changed the student loan program to a direct program and those loans are now counted as part of this metric. It is not comparable to anything prior to 2011." And, he adds ominously, "massive credit card use as measured against actual verifiable sales shows the increase is in borrowed funds to pay for food! Not my idea of a healthy sign."

How about lower unemployment figures? Fitzgibbon says they are a "joke." He says that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has "completely changed the ... metrics as of January 2012. None of the current percentages are relatable to anything prior to 2012!" He points out that the January unemployment data are heavily adjusted for "seasonal variations." He notes that "the actual data [show that the economy] lost 2.7 million jobs in January." And that's just the numerator. For the denominator -- the number of people in the workforce -- the data "also shows about 1.2 million people magically left the workforce." He says one has to go back to the early 1980s to see labor force participation as low as it is now.

Auto sales? He says "auto sales are when the manufacturer dumps cars and trucks on a dealer. Inventory stuffing! It has no relationship to actual sales to a consumer. Thanks to Obama, GM dealers are drowning in product no one wants to buy. It is a meaningless data point. Only dealer-to-consumer data is useful. It is not showing any growth at all."

Housing? He says positive news in this sector is unreliable. "The raw data we get shows it is worse than last year and in some regions [the] worst ever since the '60s."

So it appears that Obama's reelection strategy hinges on asking people to believe the data he puts before them rather than the evidence of their own eyes. It won't work.

Any economic recovery is only publicly noticed eight to 12 quarters after it has taken place. Ask George H.W. Bush, who lost the 1992 election despite very positive economic news at the end of his term. Or ask Clinton, who lost Congress despite two years of favorable job-creation numbers. It takes awhile for the good economic news to sink in. And, when there is no good news, just faked government propaganda, it takes even longer to sink in!

A Real View Of Greek Debt

A Warning Sign For The World

February 15, 2012 11:18 amauthor: The Economic Collapse Blog

Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail. Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy things our economy would immediately ground to a halt. Unfortunately, no debt bubble can last forever. When this current debt bubble finally bursts, faith in the financial system is going to disappear, credit is going to freeze up and there is going to be a massive wave of bank failures. Right now, Greece is a warning sign for the world. Nobody wants to lend money to Greece, the Greek banking system is dying, one out of every four businesses has already shut down, unemployment is soaring and the Greek economy has now been in recession for five years in a row. Sadly, the economic implosion in Greece is rapidly accelerating. The Greek economy shrunk at a 7 percent annual rate during the 4th quarter of 2011. That wasn’t supposed to happen. Things were supposed to be getting better in Greece by now. But instead the Greek depression is getting even worse, and very soon the rest of the world is going to be going through what Greece is currently experiencing.

Unfortunately, most in the mainstream media are treating what is happening in Greece as an “isolated incident” rather than as a very serious warning sign for the world.
Thankfully, there are at least a few reporters out there that are realizing the gravity of the situation. The following is how one reporter from the New York Times recently described what life is like in Greece now….

By many indicators, Greece is devolving into something unprecedented in modern Western experience. A quarter of all Greek companies have gone out of business since 2009, and half of all small businesses in the country say they are unable to meet payroll. The suicide rate increased by 40 percent in the first half of 2011. A barter economy has sprung up, as people try to work around a broken financial system. Nearly half the population under 25 is unemployed. Last September, organizers of a government-sponsored seminar on emigrating to Australia, an event that drew 42 people a year earlier, were overwhelmed when 12,000 people signed up. Greek bankers told me that people had taken about one-third of their money out of their accounts; many, it seems, were keeping what savings they had under their beds or buried in their backyards. One banker, part of whose job these days is persuading people to keep their money in the bank, said to me, “Who would trust a Greek bank?”

Can you imagine?
Greece is experiencing a full-blown economic collapse and nobody can see a light at the end of the tunnel at this point.
As I have written about previously, the overall rate of unemployment in Greece has now risen above 20 percent and the youth unemployment rate in Greece has soared to an astounding 48 percent.
Deleveraging can be an extremely painful process. Greece has been forced to try to reduce the size of its budget deficit, but every time it cuts government spending that causes economic activity (and thus government revenues) to slow down as well.
Now the EU and the IMF are demanding that even more very painful austerity measures be implemented in Greece even though Greece is already experiencing a full-blown depression.
The EU and the IMF are demanding that Greece fire 15,000 more government workers immediately and a total of 150,000 government workers by 2015.
The EU and the IMF are demanding that wages for government workers be cut by another 20 percent.
The EU and the IMF are demanding that the minimum wage be slashed by more than 20 percent.
The EU and the IMF are also demanding significant reductions in unemployment benefits and pension benefits.
Of course all of those cuts are going to make the short-term economic conditions in Greece even worse.
The rioting, looting and burning of buildings that we are witnessing right now in Greece is likely to continue for quite some time as exasperated citizens attempt to express their frustrations to politicians that simply do not seem to care.
According to the National Confederation of Greek Commerce, recent rioting resulted in damage to 153 businesses in Athens. 45 of those businesses were totally destroyed.
You can view some stunning footage of the current rioting in Greece right here.
Despite all of the austerity measures that have already been implemented, the truth is that Greece is very likely to default soon anyway.
There is a very good chance that the new austerity agreement that the Greek parliament just approved will never be implemented. There are new elections scheduled for April and the current party in power is polling in the single digits.
The new Greek government is likely to look much different from the current one, and nobody knows for sure if the new government will follow through on any of the promises being made by the current government.
In addition, the German parliament must approve this new deal with Greece, and the German parliament is not scheduled to vote on it until February 27th. Considering the mood in Germany right now, approval is not guaranteed.
So there are all kinds of things that could go wrong with the “deals” that are currently being discussed. The truth is that a Greek default in the coming months seems to become more likely by the day.
Some in the financial world almost seem eager for a Greek default. The following is what Jon Moulton, the chairman of Better Capital, recently told CNBC….

“If I was Greek, I wouldn’t be going for these measures, I’d be going for default and getting it over with. Would you like two to three years of pain or 20?”

But a disorderly Greek default would not be a pleasant thing for the global economy at all. A recent article in the Guardian detailed what some of the consequences of a Greek default and exit from the eurozone might be….

But default and “re-drachmatisation” would be a costly and chaotic process. In the long term the euro might be strengthened if some of its weaker members headed for the door. But in the short term banks across the eurozone might have to be closed to prevent a run on the single currency as investors speculated about which country might be next. A new wave of bank nationalisations would be likely to follow as lenders counted their losses on now worthless Greek debt.
Capital controls would have to be imposed and borders shut to stop money flooding out of Greece. Portugal, Italy and Spain would come under intense pressure from investors wary about the risk of another victim. Banks everywhere, already reluctant to lend, would cut back hard, nervous about their exposure to the bonds of all Europe’s crisis-hit states.

And the financial crisis in Europe is going to continue to spread well beyond Greece. Moody’s Investors Service just downgraded the credit ratings of six European nations. The following is how Bloomberg described the downgrades….

Spain was downgraded to A3 from A1 with a negative outlook, Italy was downgraded to A3 from A2 with a negative outlook and Portugal was downgraded to Ba3 from Ba2 with a negative outlook, Moody’s said. It also reduced the ratings of Slovakia, Slovenia and Malta.

Countries such as Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Hungary are heading down the exact same road that Greece has gone. Greece was the first one to experience a full-blown depression, but soon Greece will have a lot of company.
Greece is most definitely a warning sign for the world. If you keep recklessly piling up debt, eventually a day of reckoning comes. It is inevitable.
But Barack Obama does not seem to understand this. He continues to pile another 150 million dollars on to our national debt every single hour. He knows that cutting spending significantly right now would hurt the economy and that would significantly hurt his chances for another term.
Needless to say, Barack Obama is not likely to do anything that is going to significantly hurt his chances for another four years in the White House.
So we continue to roll on toward disaster.
The U.S. financial system is like a car with no brakes that is heading straight toward a 5,000 foot drop at 100 miles an hour.
It is all going to seem like fun and games to some people until we hit the canyon floor.
Once that happens, nobody will be laughing.

 

Is the Government Setting Us Up For Martial Law?

The following article purports to say that the government is incompetent when an illegal alien fugitive is arrested and then released. It is far from that. Incompetent is a compliment, the reality is that this is all part of a plan to destabilize the US. 

We have seen the "incompetence" of Fast and Furious, where guns were allowed to go south to Mexican drug cartels.  This is only one of these ventures the "Injustice" Department has run. The only reason we are hearing about it is that a Border Patrolman was killed.  Otherwise, it would have all avoided our detection.

However, when you see this story, the picture becomes much clearer.  Why would they want to release this guy?  Could it be that he might have talked about another program or plan? Or is he connected to the White House or some other government agency?  Who knows but there is something afoot that smells to high heaven.

If the intent was to get enough guns into the hands of Mexican gun lords and they or those supported by them could be placed in strategic locations across the country  awaiting their orders to start civil disturbances, riots,  gun shootouts with police, could we expect the government to "save us" by declaring martial law? What a great way to make sure the American public was disarmed!  

Maybe this is the reason the Administration has been so strongly opposing any illegal immigrant legislation.  Could it all be part of the plan? 

This Administration has shown that the rule of law and personal freedoms are not important to them. Their goal is the expansion of their power over the American people.  So nothing they do, say or decree surprises us.

If the goal is martial law, we will see more operations like Fast and Furious, the release of dangerous wanted foreign felons from local jails and the continued opposition to illegal immigrant legislation. It is not incompetence, it is a plan. 

Conservative Tom

Government Incompetence in Action: Fugitive Arrested then Ordered Released

By GOPUSA Staff February 15, 2012 1:58 pm

          

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How's this for government incompetence. A wanted fugitive was arrested in Texas on a routine traffic stop. After searching the car, sheriff's officials found cash and a shotgun. Upon doing a background check, they realized they had a wanted man on their hands. The next day, however, federal officials told local law enforcement to release the suspect. Guess what happened next? He promptly disappeared!

As Fox News reports, "A former Mexican government official wanted for embezzling millions was arrested in Texas this month, then promptly ordered released by the State Department in a case that has one lawmaker demanding answers." The State Department realized that they made a mistake and rescinded the order, but "Hector Hernandez Javier Villarreal was gone by then."

“All we did was make a traffic stop; they didn’t have a front license plate,” Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith told FoxNews.com.

Police were given permission to search the vehicle and found $67,000 in cash and a shotgun, Smith said.

“When we ran the check on the shotgun, then all of a sudden everyone in federal government became interested -- ATF, FBI, Homeland Security, Immigration [ICE] all showed up,” Smith said.

He said Homeland Security officials had told his department that Villarreal was a high-profile and wanted fugitive.

“We placed them in jail on money-laundering charges, seized the vehicle and the money, ICE came and picked them up from our jail and took them to Dallas and that’s the last we’ve seen or heard of them,” Smith said.

It turns out that Villarreal was issued a visa by the federal government even though he was a known Mexican fugitive. Because of this visa, the State Department ordered his release for deportation processing. Of course, given the chance to get out of jail, Villareal jumped at the chance!

In addition to wanting to find out why State gave the conflicting orders, Gohmert wants to know why the federal authorities issued a visa to a man under arrest in Mexico.

“We need to look at the visa program [EB-5] that allows foreigners to simply invest $500,000 in a venture and we give them a visa,” he said. “This is allowing wealthy foreigners to buy a visa.”

“Hopefully we can pursue the matter and get some answers,” he said.

Good questions. Does anyone really think that Obama's State Department will have the answers?