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Posted on 03/30/2009 8:00:27 PM PDT by freemike
From AceofSpades
"Meet HR 875. Its a "small" bill, not nearly as voluminous as the Spendulus, and it can easily be read in one sitting if you just want to get the gist of the nightmare it will create."
"Basically, HR 875 sets up a MASSIVE new government bureaucracy called the Food Safety Administration, and compels anything known as a "food establishment" to register with the federal government (paying registration fees of course) and to submit to inspections that are at different intervals depending on the type of "food establishment" you are."
And a fresh ripe tomato is one of my greatest joys in life! I have some growing but I also love buying fresh ones!
>>People would ignore most of this BS.
We’re living the book.
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
- Ayn Rand, ‘Atlas Shrugged’ 1957
OK... I'll bite... what can't you grow in your veggie garden in New Mexico?
...and end up with a big fat fine, or a little stay in club fed.
I guess i gotta make a phone call and get back to ya.
I just googled it - the treehuggers are furious. Now this is a way for bipartisanship!
I was taught way back in high school,,, way back when there was still some education in the public school,, that in Soviet Russia,, they made so many laws the police could stop any person on the street at any time and, if questioned him long enough or took him to his home, would find him in violation of some law. Another thing about the Soviet Union,, to disagree with the state meant you had a mental disorder.
We’ll be headed in that direction soon enough!
The people might,, but not the community organizers!
Food to be controlled - Right to eat real food now to be non-existant.
this will destroy the local food and organic food movements that liberals love so dearly.
I don’t think they even have a clue.
Was this covered earlier in a thread?
They’re going after the organic stuff too. That’s the health food of choice for the watermellons and their allies the ACORNs. Just wait ‘till the fed boot comes down on ‘em.
Wow ....so goes the commie commune gardens ?!?!?
They don’t need the commies now; the one is in power!
LOL! Right! Especially those advocating the purchase and use of foodstuffs from no more than 100 miles from where you live, or no more than an hour, or something like that. That's where the farmstands become so important. We have several nice farmstands in the area, and I like to purchase stuff from them in the summer and into the fall.
According to the video you linked, it's the evil corporations that are behind this, but since the Democrats are in charge of the House and Senate, it's THEY who will determine the outcome of this legislation. The Democrat foodies are gonna have to pressure them, cause we Republicans have no say in the matter, since we are outnumbered in Congress.
Would some of our lawyers weigh in here.
WTH kind of provision is this? What gives the state the right to presume something for which there is NO EVIDENCE? What is next ... the right of the state to presume that your DNA is at a crime scene?
It is ridiculous to assume that the local farmer's market is involved in interstate commerce. It might have brought in items from out of state, but it's just as possible that everything was grown within state lines, and therefore, theoretically free from the jurisdiction of federal busybodies.
Let’s name names here. The sponsors:
Ms. DELAURO (for herself, Ms. ESHOO, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. ENGEL, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut, Ms. SUTTON, Mrs. LOWEY, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. SCHAUER, Mr. NADLER of New York, Mr. BISHOP of New York, Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Ms. GIFFORDS, Mr. FILNER, Mr. HALL of New York, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. PINGREE of Maine, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, and Mr. DEFAZIO)
Basically the leftiest of the left in Congress; in other words, the Communists.
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