"Whoa there Tex, did you say Ammonia?"
Posted on 10/25/2016 6:24:34 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
Lawmakers across Nebraska are celebrating a US Court of Appeals ruling involving anhydrous ammonia fertilizer.
Federal regulators with OSHA had issued new requirements for storage of anhydrous ammonia which would impact smaller retailers like those many Nebraska farmers go to.
The court threw out that move saying they did it without offering a public comment period.
Senator Ben Sasse issued the following statement:
“Nebraska farmers and ranchers didn’t elect any of the bureaucrats at OSHA. That’s why this ruling is an encouraging step to restore common sense and the separation of powers.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nebraska.tv ...
http://www.agweb.com/article/osha-anhydrous-rules-could-impact-farmers-ag-retailers-naa-betsy-jibben/
Bureaucrats, control, capricious, fools, do gooders and all manner of other descriptions not fit to print attach to all manner of FED ass-hats. We have been using AH for decades without any help from the FEDS.
I'm especially up in arms over this becaus just as I figure out a beneficial and relatively inexpensive way to kill gophers they regulate it out of existence.
We are so screwed.
This unaccountable shadow government needs to be dismantled piece by piece.
You are too kind and considerate for my taste. Just destroy it all and what is necessary will re emerge. That is the best way to do a corporate restructuring if you are serious.
Anhydrous ammonia is a tough product to handle.
Most people who have been around it know to be careful with it.
There are certain applications where it makes sense, but I’d much rather deal with liquid or dry fertilizer.
...NOW Since when did this become such a concern to the government....
Since liberals decided that they must control of every facet of Americans’ lives from the cradle to the grave. The fertilizer regulations are just a taste of what is happening and what will only get worse under continued liberal control.
Piling regulation on regulation is the lifeblood of liberalism and drawing the lifeblood from us.
The government would rather use humans as fertilizer. After all.....we emit C02.
Roger that.
AA is some scary $h!t. It can pull the liquid right out of your cells (including the mucous lining of your lungs) causing pretty much instant death.
"Whoa there Tex, did you say Ammonia?"
"Nebraska farmers and ranchers didn’t elect any of the bureaucrats at OSHA. ..."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots beware !
Although OSHA regulators are being singled out as the troublemakers in this case, consider that the real problem is Congress according to the following explanation.
While Sen. Sasse’s heart is in the right place with respect to protecting state sovereignty, please consider the following. Even if the farmers and ranchers had elected the bureaucrats running OSHA, it remains that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate the aspects of this issue.
In this case, as evidenced by the Constitution’s Clause 2 of Section 9 of Article I for example, the only safety issue that the states have expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to address is limited to rebellions or invasions which this issue doesn’t address, corrections welcome.
”Article I, Section 9, Clause 2: The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it [emphasis added].
Also, not only is the Constitution’s silence about agriculture evidence that the states have never delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate INTRAstate agriculture, but consider the following.
A previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had officially clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated the the feds the specific power to regulate agricultural production.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The bottom line is that the OSHA regulation that the court decided against is another example of the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress not only allowing non-elected federal bureaucrats to steal legislative powers, but consider the following.
By letting OSHA get away with harrasing the states with powers that OSHA stole from the states, OSHA is not only doing Congress’s dirty work for it, but corrupt lawmakers are able to keep their voting records clean. And by keeping their voting records clean, lawmakers can fool low-information voters, voters who are clueless about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, into reelecting them.
Finally, note that by deciding the case in Nebraska’s favor with a technicality instead of emphasizing powers which the states have never reasonably delegated to the feds, misguided federal justices are helping to unconstitutonally expand the unconstituionalyl big federal government’s powers imo.
In fact, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution, had warned patriots to be on their guard against the feds unconstitutonally expanding their powers in subtle ways.
”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
”To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791
”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional inteference in state affairs as evidenced by the constitutionally indefensible OSHA regulation.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
They want to put all small, family and hobby farmers out of business. They do this by piling on "reasonable regulations" that large agro-business may find a minor nuisance but the small farmers find egregious.
Bit by bit they force them out of business.
FACT!!!
Dihydrogen Monoxide kills more people in a day than Anhydrous Ammonia killed in ten years.
When people are screaming about term limits, it just shows me they don’t know where the real problem lies. You guys understand the real problem.
Note that I’m not saying I couldn’t abide by some term limits, but it’s probably longer than many, if not most, think. There is a learning curve.
I just want something to kill 200 acres of gophers before their mounds beat my equipment to pieces, jar my guts out and they further destroy my grass!!!
30.06 at 50 yards should do the trick.
Gophers, not prairie dogs or ground squirrels or whistle pigs. Nothing that fights fair. Gophers stay underground all the time and only push lose dirt up into piles. If they did come up I would run out of ammo.
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