Posted on 11/30/2010 9:01:45 AM PST by kara2008
I mentioned last week that a new Big Foodie bill opposed by a diverse coalition of limited government activists, small family farmers, and left-leaning “locovores” was coming down the pike.
Today, I’m disappointed to tell you, the regulatory expansion bill masquerading as a “safety” measure passed by a large margin — with stomach-turning Republican support.
The 15 power-grabby Republicans who voted for it:
Alexander (R-TN)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Collins (R-ME)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kirk (R-IL)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Lugar (R-IN)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Snowe (R-ME)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
The Senate bill must be reconciled with a version that passed the House of Representatives in 2009 before Congress adjourns for the year.
For now.
I do like that the FDA will finally be able to make tests of vitamins and other “health supplements”. The promoters have had no regulation at all. As Consumer Reports has found, what is on the label is often nowhere near what is in the bottle.
And like Consumer Reports has shown, it doesn't require government legislation to do that. Any private company can do a business providing that service without the nannystate watching over us.
Do you think the government can do a better job than private industry? Has the government ever been able to do a better job at anything than private industry? They couldn't even run the post office and can't run the DMV. And you think they can do a good job *protecting* our food?!?!
As we depend on gov’t to assure that our meat, poultry, fish are safe to eat, and our medicines are safe, it is reasonable to have an independent review of safety in “dietary supplements”.
It's failed miserably at that. How many medicines has the FDA approved that have had to be taken off the market because of fatal side effects? Can you say *Vioxx*? Can you say *Merck*?
Keeping a watch on the predatory charlatans is important.
And how long before you become labeled a predatory charlatan?
Hey, noob, that kind of advocating for federal government control is NOT going to go over well on this site. You are on the wrong board to push that kind of agenda.
Try here....
You'll like DU.
The only thing that it crushed was used books for children (lead again)
They actually closed down a number of used book stores, and every website that was selling the books.
Yes, I remember now that lead was involved there also, for page eaters.
The inconvenience to me is that distributions, sales, and parts availability for small dirt bikes has been severely curtailed.
This vote means nothing.
What has the government told me? I missed that.
You mean about the contrails that form every single time an eastbound flight approaches socal under those met conditions? And how you look through magnification at the tip of an approaching contrail and it appears to be going straight up? And how the aircraft can reflect sunlight from the set sun (at ground level) and it looks like a rocket plume? And how vortexes/vortices can make the contrail look like it is spiralling?
OK, I get it now.
Those 15 Rs better not have a job this next election! Throw
the bums out!
We can hope that the House of Reps has a better Conservative/RINO ratio.
I knew you would.
I’m not sure if either the government or private industry can do a better job. Greed has a way of corrupting everything and after Wall Street 2008 I refuse to lock into any ideology that one is better than the other.
What we need is a big axe that can take the head off the first one that prefers dishonesty over ethics. To enforce that we need oversight of each. When money is involved corruption will inevitably result and the victims are often those most gullible as in elderly.
So no I will never buy a philosophy that private industry is without its own set of problems and agree that greed is always the catalyst.
I could go either way as long as there is a means to enforce justice and that those who cross the line of ethics will pay with their head in a basket. That would solve many of the problems we have today where the guilty go unpunished. I don’t trust politicians to prosecute.
Beware of a government that promises you safety and security in return for your liberty.
You will get neither.
Private industry can do it more cost effectively than government work, but I never said that it was free of problems.
They’re just not as rampant as the government ones and there’s not anything that the government can’t screw up good once it gets its hands on it.
You’re right. We can never weed out corruption on all levels. But the government certainly can’t and putting them in charge of something like that is like having the fox guard the henhouse.
Private enterprise and a free market will take care of as much as possible.
For a perfect world, we have to wait for the next one.
Didn’t take Murkowski long to get stupid! Geez!
DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS.—Nothing in the amendments made by this section shall apply to any dietary supplement that is in compliance with the requirements of sec16 tions 402(g)(2) and 761 of the Federal Food, Drug, and 17 Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 342(g)(2), 379aa-1).
And what about the two Republican Senators who did not vote? They are Christopher Bond (MO) and Sam Brownbeck (KS). As far as I am concerned we can assume that since they did not vote they would have voted with the Socialists!
In 2012 we must vote out the RINO’s during our Primary elections! We sure are going to get the job done here in Florida. We will be replacing Socialist Bill Nelson with a great Constitutional Conservative!
Should Murkowski have abstained? Isn’t her Senate seat still tied up in court with a recount?
There is talk that Pelosi & the House will ‘deem’ it passed.
I don’t know the differences in the 2 bills.
I am keeping the list of these RINO’s for future reference.
This bill is a travesty.
I will try to contribute to any serious candidate that goes up against any of these 15.
Mark Kirk was just sworn in for NObama’s old seat. How could he know what is in this bill???
It is not going to be legal to own the seeds.
Thanks, Monsanto.
Don’t you love how they don’t even bother to do their damn job and have a vote. Just “deem” it passed. Why even have a House of Reps at that point...
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