They can have my vegetables when they pry them from my cold dead hands!
Posted on 11/17/2010 2:09:17 AM PST by Scanian
Just because the duck is lame doesn't mean it can't still do terrible damage to American freedom. Our new Congress, especially the new House, isn't yet seated, and this current Congress can still wreak terrible havoc on our rights if not stopped.
Case in point: Senate Bill 510, believed to be coming to the floor Wednesday, November 17 (pending). This is the food safety version of ObamaCare. Reading the thing will make your head hurt for all its cognitive dissonance. Trying to winnow out its complexity and hidden empowerments is stultifying.
Introduced by Dick Durbin of Illinois, the bill has moved through the usual phases of amalgamation and deal-making. The monstrosity advancing to the floor on Wednesday is not so much "food safety" as it is the decadence of the rights of small farmers, hobbyist food producers, garden-variety farmers markets, and your average small producer of foodstuffs. Under the rubric of safety, this Senate proposes a bill that establishes such new and sweeping powers over how you and I produce and consume foodstuffs that even the Pew Charitable Trusts are calling S510 a clear and present danger. National Health Freedom says,
"It is a dangerously broad regulatory bill giving extensive discretionary power to the FDA over the entire food supply chain without proper checks and balances to avoid abuse of power;
"It would impose one-size-fits-all-regulations on thousands of small and mid-sized farmers, small-scale local farms and food producers, and would drastically burden, to extinction, basic natural and organic food suppliers, thus endangering the lives of Americans who depend on local wholesome foods..."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Don’t these people ever stop?
Am I going to have to buy a commuter book of train tickets to Washington DC so I can spend time each week in front of the Capitol Building?
Like previously mentioned, why do we let people who have been fired back on the job? This makes no sense.
Self reliance ping!
I think we were all expecting some Sneaky Pete crap from the ‘Rats before Jan 1.
So far, no card check, no amnesty (just Zer0 talking with some Hispanic “leaders” and Dingy Harry making some noise),
and no climate bills.
No Bush tax cut resolution either.
To me, the food bill was the limit. “El colmo” if you know some Spanish lingo.
Good test for McConnell...this ought to let us know if he has the backbone for the job.
...and people actually vote FOR these control freaks..?
I don’t think we’re allowed to criticize priggish moralists on FR. Looks like a very good book though.
Really?
No influence from ADM?
They can have my vegetables when they pry them from my cold dead hands!
That’s what I was just wondering. WTH?
The alternative is voting for even bigger control freaks.
el colmo - the height
We need to jam the lines and raise hell about this, like TODAY!!
Let’s get Limbaugh and Beck on the the case...they ought to be hot to trot about something like this.
We sent the Memo on 11/2, apparently they did not read it.
And commonly used to mean “the straw that broke the camel’s back” and this thng really is for some of us.
LoL!
They’re thinking “Conagra” and “Archer Daniel Midlands” wants me to vote for this bill, I’m afraid.
More crap.....thanks for the ping
Must see new TV show——— Apocalypse PA on History Channel
http://articles.mcall.com/2010-11-12/entertainment/mc-apocalypse-20101112_1_history-channel-show-contractor
This guy with his family has built a wood chip powered truck. An alcohol still and made his own ammunition. Bought some goats too.
Quinn just said that they are going to attach the earmark moratorium to this Food Safety bill.
So if Republicans vote against the bill, they will be accused of hypocrisy on the earmarks thing.
I presume this has yet to go to the House?
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