Posted on 08/18/2017 4:38:52 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
“”Wonder if it is a coincidence Pelosi owns a vineyard?””
I think her vineyards are grapes grown for wine - just guessing...a bunch of hooey regardless! Googling info doesn’t reveal anything - people have asked what label her wine is sold under and people in Napa say they don’t even know - closely guarded secret...
AND of course, I don’t believe the concern expressed by Schumer and his buddy is “grape juice” for the poor New Yorkers as much as it is for the wineries...They’re going to drive us all to drink pretty soon and we may welcome their subsidy but I’m disappointed that it was granted!
let thr excess die.
In Food Stamps, in Military meals, in Healthcare, in everything the goverment buys, is there any negotiation for the best price? No. Oversupply? The government pays more.
More specifically, regardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), FDR's justices evidently ignored that a previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate commerce, agricultural production an example.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
If Sen. Schumer wants the feds to buy agricultural products for non-military purposes, he must first lead Congress to successfully petition the states for an appropriate amendment to the Constitution.
Regarding senators like Schumer, although Trump is accomplishing a LOT as president, it remains that since the uniparty Congress wants to get rid of him that his first two years in office are arguably just practice. That being said ...
Drain the swamp sewer! Drain the sewer!
Remember in November 2018 !
Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the sewer (imo) that Trump wants to drain, it is actually up to patriots to drain the sewer in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.
In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed in this post.
Also, unlike incumbent members of Congress who wrongly remained silent while misguided state officials abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens during the lawless Obama Administration, patriots need to make sure that candidates on the 2018 primary ballots commit to the following.
Candidates need to commit to making and enforcing 14th Amendment-related laws to prosecute misguided state officials who use state powers to abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.
”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Again, drain the sewer! Drain the sewer!
Hard-working efficient enterprises do not need government assistance. The marketplace provides their all their needs.
Yeah, but they each have to give CHuckie and Kirsten a percentage.
I don’t drink grape juice anymore. The doctor told me to lay off of fruit juice because it spikes the blood sugar and causes retention of body fat. Now you have two good reasons to boycott grape juice.
Sure, most of us would. But this is not farmers who face NO PROFIT or LOSING MONEY. This is farmers (collectives owned by donors to DEM politicians) who had a good growing season, have an abundance of crop, and will PROFIT, but who want MORE PROFIT. (per the article)
Just more welfare. These are probably hobby farms for Wall Street types.
Chucky Schumer and his idiot sidekick Gillibrand have grapes for brains.
So, when will Pelosi and Feinstein etc. vote to give themselves subsidies for their California vineyards?
Perhaps they should go break windows to help out the window industry???
New York State should buy the grapes, turn it into wine, box it and give it away to the multitude of unemployed homeless people in the State and NYC.
Isn’t this the same as dumping?
That could be true of enterprises that needn't worry about droughts,floods,unusually cold winters,unusually warm summers,an unusual infestation by insects....
All Acts of God BTW...
Is he Pelosi’s pawn?
Schumer and Gillibrand are wrong on everything else; I hope and pray they are wrong on this too. Even ignoring the fact that this would raise prices for American consumers, subsidizing businesses is not an appropriate use for our tax dollars.
“”Isn’t this the same as dumping?””
I would say that’s a correct observation.
I grew up in upstate NY and I know there are lots of wineries in that area so I’m sure Schumer and Gillibrand aren’t concerned about the “poor” New Yorkers who can’t afford to buy grape juice! Their voters should be insulted to think their senators think so little of their intelligence.
So just how much money did each of the 18,000 grape growers have to put in Schumer deep pockets to get back 60,000 bucks from our taxes?
Just thinking that if Democrats are such whores, how much would a million bucks of dirty money cost me? It seems that Madam Clinton payed off at over a hundred to one, perhaps a ugly whore like Schumer pays better odds?
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