>>>>We’ren’t you calling such things socialism, agreeing w/tompaine? Apologies if I misunderstood.
I’ve no idea what that said.
>>>My point was that just as police, the military, and fire depts. are legitimate functions of govt., so too is lawfully setting basic hygiene and safety standards, and the ability to enforce these.
The government isn’t lawfully doing the basics. Therefore they are creating an environment to expand. That environment is becoming jackboots to protect the commercial producers and squeezing out the homesteaders and small farms from producing with the NAIS and USDA restrictions. That is socialism.
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USDA’s Snooping Machine
> The government isn’t lawfully doing the basics.
Agree with that. But they should be. This crisis should never have happened.
> Therefore they are creating an environment to expand. That environment is becoming jackboots to protect the commercial producers and squeezing out the homesteaders and small farms from producing with the NAIS and USDA restrictions. That is socialism.
Agree with this. The govt. agencies have been perverted to serve our enemies. Nevertheless, just as a corrupt police dept. does not invalidate the proper mission of a police force in upholding the law, so too a corrupt FDA does not invalidate its true mission of upholding standards of safe food.