(Politico) -- Politico.com reports on the publication's unsuccessful attempt to get an answer to a simple question from a farmer. The story was written after an ag producer in Illinois told President Obama recently when he visited Illinois that he was concerned about, "more rules and regulations — including those concerning dust, noise and water runoff — that he heard would negatively affect his business."
According to the story, the president, on day three of his Midwest bus tour, replied: "Contact USDA. Talk to them directly....my suspicion is, a lot of times, they're going to be able to answer your questions and it will turn out that some of your fears are unfounded." MJ Lee, a Politico.com reporter, writes that when he "decided to take the president's advice and call the USDA for an answer to the Atkinson town hall attendees question," he found himself "in a bureaucratic equivalent of hot potato — getting bounced from the feds to Illinois state agriculture officials to the state farm bureau." After more than four hours of phone calls spread over two days, "still no answer to the farmer's question."
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And these types of bureaucrats will soon be running our health care.
