Posted on 03/10/2009 9:31:17 AM PDT by fightinbluhen51
Maryland has its own agricultural department. If it wants to beef up intrastate commerce regulations, it and the legislooture can do so at any time.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I apologize to all FReepers for the actions of Aglooka, who posted a picture of Rosa Delauro, who makes Olympia Snowe look like a Beauty Queen. :-D
Wait until they pass the “Leisure time regulations act of 2009” to regulate how you use whatever free time you have after you finished working for your revenue enhancement work period.
The fee makes the Act seem more like an extortion racket.
More government revenue. That is, from those who can afford to stay in business.
We may all starve but the little food we get will be safe, (According to pseudo-science and political expediency).
If things don’t change it will be:
2010-50%-80% of small farms forced to sell to large corporations.
2012-90-95% of small farms wiped out
We have a very reasonable price in mind for our farms and would entertain any offer. Problem is, no-one is buying. The Mormon church was for a while but they shut down all their operations in our county and are leasing their farms.
There were 2 corporate farming concerns in our county a few years ago, the farms that they bought have lain fallow since they left because even though they are offering them at a very cheap price they ruined them by growing vegetable crops without rotating with grain crops.
The one corporate farming concern that moved in last year isn’t buying land, they are just leasing.
(1) the safety of the food supply of the United States is vital to the public health, to public confidence in the food supply, and to the success of the food sector of the Nation’s economy;
We already have plenty of laws on the books regulating the cleanliness of factories, the criminalization of poisons/toxins in foods, etc. Maybe the gov't should try to do a better job of enforcing the laws already on the books before they make more.
'Twas FDR's cowed Supreme Court, actually. In one of the first big cases to spring up after his "pack the courts" threat, the Supremes showed that they were now his little Chia pets. (They had shown some spine in a few decisions just before his threat.)
The court case was Wickhard v Filburn. It was a lovely way for FDR to announce the death of the Tenth Amendment without having to go to the press about it. Grr.
thanks for the information. I knew there was a court case, but I didn’t know the name of the case.
Sorry, but that was declared a non-issue back in the 30's. According to the Supreme Court, the government can look at the aggregated effects of any intrastate production (like growing wheat for your own faarm's consumption), and note that it has interstate implications... and thus, the Feds can regulate it. Nice, isn't it?
Now, the silly little fact that ANYTHING, seen in the national aggregate, has interstate implications, should not trouble anyome. That "interstate commerce" clause is now just as powerful as the "general welfare" clause (which, by the way, had nothing to do with transfer payments to poor folk, when written)... and that Tenth Amendment might as well be written in invisible ink.
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Thank you for contacting me about H.R. 875, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009. I appreciate hearing from you and I welcome the opportunity to respond.
It is my view that American consumers should be able to make informed decisions about the food they eat or provide for their families. As such, I support reasonable measures that will ensure consumer access to information, as well as a regulatory framework that adequately protects consumers. I also share you concern that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires a major overhaul to modernize outdated and ineffective food inspection procedures. The particular bill you mentioned, H.R. 875, has been referred to the House Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on Energy and Commerce, a committee on which I am fortunate to serve. I will be sure to keep your views in mind should the Committee or the full House of Representatives have an opportunity to consider this or other relevant legislation in the future.
Again, I appreciate hearing from you. Please do not hesitate to contact me about other issues of concern to you in the future.
Sincerely,
John Sarbanes
Member of Congress
The reply. Since when is common sense and “reasonable” the key words on infringing upon ever piece of the Constitution.
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