Posted on 11/26/2010 8:28:13 AM PST by Nachum
As millions across the country prepared for their annual Thanksgiving feast, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) was busy taking shots at Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) over food safety, claiming in a letter from a Reid spokesman that Coburn, a physician who has delivered more than 4,000 babies, doesn’t care if children get sick.
Coburn is offering amendments to, and opposing the current form of, Senate Bill 510, the so-called “Food Safety Modernization Act.”
According to Coburn’s camp, this bill, which could come to a vote as early as next week and which is being heavily pushed by Reid and the lame-duck congress, would do nothing to alleviate the few problems there are with food safety in the United States. The U.S. has less than 34 cases of food-borne illness per 100,000 people, and the bill would simply add burdensome regulations and give federal bureaucrats TSA-like authority to do whatever they felt was necessary to “secure the food chain” with little recourse for consumers or producers.
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Like Obama, Reid and Pelosi are something nasty history is going to have to scrape-off the sole of its boot.
A study of the role of the latifundia in Roman society and politics will reveal what this is all about.
This is about control, as is most federal legislation in the past 22 years.
I wish the govt. would stop dicking around and declare martial law, plant that microchip in my forehead, and schedule my vacation in a re-education camp. I’m sick of being free. Sick of making decisions. Sick of being afraid. Sick of living my own life. Be sooo much easier if they just did it for me.
510 is horribly unfair and probably the result of lobbyists for big food producers.
Leave it to Reid....just adds more $ to his coffers.
I wish the govt. would stop dicking around and declare martial law, plant that microchip in my forehead, and schedule my vacation in a re-education camp. I’m sick of being free. Sick of making decisions. Sick of being afraid. Sick of living my own life. Be sooo much easier if they just did it for me.
Then, at least one third of America, would push the Constitution's reset button. May as well do it now.
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Good Morning.
I’m looking at my beautiful grandbabies yesterday thinking if not ME then who is going to do something to make sure they get a chance to be sitting around on Thanksgiving with their grandbabies?
This camel can’t take too many more straws.
We are going to have to scrape more than Reid and Pelosi off the bottom of our shoe. For starters our Two RHINO senators from Georgia, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson. These two progressive elistist morons are not only chomping at the bit to vote for the bill they are both co-sponsors. Please feel free to join the folks in Georgia and call these guys up to share your thoughts on S.510.
Chambliss: 202-224-3521
Isakson: 202-224-3643
I recently made a resolution to myself. I will not comply with ANY laws that I personally do not agree with. I am my own boss. I own my property outright and owe not a single dime to anyone. Everything we have is paid for in full. I will grow and sell my veggies as I please and when I please. I will fly my flag how and when I please. I will speak out against this tyranny as strong as our founding Fathers did.
The government can kiss my a$$. Come and Take it!!
panax
You and me, plus 80 million other patriots. And, that 80 million figure is VERY conservative.
The Pubbies in the House have one more chance to right the ship of State. If they don't, all bets are off.
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Since you mentioned TSA check out this article on that bureaucracy because it applies to the concept on every bureacracy the Obama regime is creating;
http://www.theusmat.com/
One of our R Senators, newly re-elected, kept listing the things wrong with the economy, etc. It was exasperating. WE KNOW WHAT IS WRONG! What are YOU (Mr. Senator) GOING TO DO???
Better put me on the list, since we are covering the same things.
Thought you already were. :)
No, I never formally requested that you do so.
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Add Tennessee’s Lamar Alexander (co-sponsor) and Bob Corker.
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