Posted on 03/26/2009 12:30:22 PM PDT by mainestategop
If we’re talking about gubmint having control of health care and the banks because “they’re too important”, then I think food production ranks right up there with “too big to fail” enterprises. So, by applying Kenyan Economics, farming should be nationalized.
(”Kenyan Economics”...hey, that’s good! Remember—you heard it from randog first).
“It’s too late to work within the system, and it’s too soon to shoot the bastards.”
Claire Wolfe
I’m overwhelmed by reading a dozen calls to arms every day in these pages (and my email inbox). I honestly think that we’ve moved into a new level of the game, with different rules.
Calling and writing my reps doesn’t seem to have any effect on what the Socialists want to do with us. It’s time for us to wake up and get in the game as it really exists at this point in time.
Let them try to enforce it. I guess that's what President Obama’s Civilian Forces are for — to see if Grandma is growing tomatoes in her backyard. They'll haul the old dame in front of the local constabulary and send her to the pokey. She'll serve out the rest of her life for a tomato unless they shoot her on the spot for domestic terrorism. Problem with aging population solved. Change you can believe in.
They are for genocide. I’ve said it before. I also mentioned of the libertarians’ erring on drugs instead of the constitutional right to be your own grower of anything you wish that is wholesome as you judge it so.
The landscape is fairly crackling with static electricity,
just waiting for an incident to discharge.
The leftists HAVE to know it, too.
Ammo shelves are bare - as soon as any comes in, it’s snatched up. The people are armed to the teeth and MAD.
I’ll shoot any bastard that tries to stop me from growin my own food. I hear bureaucrats make good fertilizer.
Mercantilism and Socialism are evil, fraternal, Siamese twins, joined at the government.
Although the US has been considered a Capitalist country, we have had both Socialism and Mercantilism co-existing in the US for a long time. The Welfare State is a form of Socialism. Large corporations, in bed with politicians (usually Democrats) keeping smaller competitors out of the market, is Mercantilism.
Socialists and Mercantilists are happy to scratch each other's backs, though each would like to be in charge, ultimately.
We need to fight this bill. We also need to educate the ignorant who will say, “This is just those greedy Capitalists”. No, it's Mercantilism. It's not capitalism. The small farmer or gardener, who might sell a few food items, is the Capitalist.
bookmark
I am reading more and more about a preference to buy locally produced goods and services. Those who prefer to eat locally grown/produced food sometimes call themselves “localvores”. Thus there is a growing demand for local farmer’s markets.
Our local farmers market is indeed taking business away from the grocery stores. I can just bet that the big food growers are up-in-arms over this and wanting to squash the movement.
This combined with using food production as a way to control the masses is driving this bill. Not only does the government apparently not want us little people to eat healthy, but maybe eventually not eat at all.
Where is the GOP?
I buy a lot from the local veggie farm.
They can have my legume when they pry it from my cold, dead butter sauce!
DAMMIT!
Now I’ll NEVER be able to find a good garden tomato in the summer! They sure as heck don’t sell those in the grocery stores!
Please get a grip on yourself. IF there is anything in this bill that we need to be seriously concerned about, you are not doing the cause any favor by making preposterous scare claims. Obviously no legislation is going to outlaw growing tomatoes in your backyard for your personal and family consumption. If you think this draft legislation says that, then you don't know anything about how to read legislation and consider the defined terms used therein (which are often defined in other, already existing laws).
I won't be paying any attention to this issue until I see it brought up by someone who is discussing it rationally. Stuff like this post goes in the same file as the outlandish global warming scare claims.
Sharing cocktails at the club with the writers of this bill, tut-tutting about us conservative plebs.
Hoping you don't see them...
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