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The government-industry revolving door puts industry-friendly experts in positions of decision-making power. Often individuals rotate between working for industry and working for the government in regulatory capacities, arrangements that are fraught with potential for conflicts of interest. Source Watch
Taylor has spun through the revolving door four times, including a stint as the top lobbyist for agri-chemical giant Monsanto. Taylor’s big food-safety regulation under Clinton was his creation of the “Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points” [HACCP] regulations on food-processing plants. This regulation, in the words of an academic study, “favors large plants over small ones,” because it costs small producers four or five times as much per pound as it costs large producers. Source
In other words, implementation of the massive healthcare bill just enacted by the Congress will be overseen by a former high-level executive of the nation's largest private health insurer. As Marcy Wheeler writes: "It’s a nice trick: send your VP to write a law mandating that the middle class buy #ty products like yours, then watch that VP move into the executive branch to 'oversee' the implementation of the law." www.salon.com...
Wendell Berry gave a rousing speech declaring that this was the first meeting he'd been at with USDA, after decades of activism, where USDA brought armed police to protect itself. Ralph Packard, a natural livestock farmer, agreed with Wendell Berry, that the government will need its guns if they make the program mandatory and require people to register their farms and animals.
farmandranchfreedom.org...
I am not a Liberal, that's for sure....
Commerce clause power was not much used by Congress until the New Deal and the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). During that administration, Roosevelt attempted to assert a lot of federal power that had not been previously asserted by the federal government. However, a number of such laws pressed through Congress were found by the U.S. Supreme Court to lack constitutional authority. For many of these pet endeavors, FDR claimed commerce clause authority.
Upon being rebuffed by the Supreme Court, Roosevelt threatened to expand the number of justices on the Court in order to be able to pack the Court with sympathizers and thereby gain court approval of his threatened New Deal programs. That created something of a standoff between Roosevelt and the Supreme Court.
It was into this politically-charged situation that the legal case of Wickard v. Filburn came to the Supreme Court.... Source
The Supreme Court ruled against Filburn saying: “If he had not fed the wheat to his livestock he would have been forced to purchase wheat for livestock feed, and that wheat would have crossed state lines, therefore he was involved in Interstate Commerce.”
Based upon these facts, if this new “DISEASE TRACEABILITY” plan goes into effect and a farmer butchers his own calf, he is in violation of the Interstate Commerce Clause. Had he not butchered his own calf, he would have been forced to go to the market and buy beef which has crossed state lines....
YOUR FOOD & THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE CLAUSE
"Mr. Chairman, the United States is bankrupt: It has been bankrupted by the corrupt and dishonest Fed. It has repudiated its debts to its own citizens. Its chief foreign creditor is Great Britain, and a British bailiff has been at the White House and the British Agents are in the United States Treasury making inventory arranging terms of liquidations!...Mr. Chairman, the Fed has offered to collect the British claims in full from the American public by trickery and corruption....“The Fed Note is essentially unsound. It is the worst currency and the most dangerous that this Country has ever known... They should not have made the Government [liable on the private] debts of individuals and corporations, and, least of all, on the private debts of foreigners....The Prime Minister of England came here for money! He came here to collect cash! He came here with Fed Currency and other claims against the Fed which England had bought up in all parts of the world. And he has presented them for redemption in gold.”
Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
Woo! Go Team!
Party politics just give stupid people something to feel smart about. Get past it already.
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Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
Reply to post by Misoir
With at least 4 other posters clearly making party preferential posts why assume I am speaking directly to you?
did I accidentally hit "reply to Misoir"? Could have, mobile is funny.
Otherwise a certain Carly Simon song comes to mind... lol
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Originally posted by Misoir
reply to post by Carseller4
Socialism is wrong because it steals from people to give to other people.
Liberalism is wrong because it supports an enlarged state pandering to special interests.
Libertarianism is wrong because it fails to recognize that the government can do some things right.
Conservatism is wrong because it believes in forcing religion on people and pandering to big business.