Posted on 06/06/2017 4:29:42 PM PDT by Twotone
Ten Idaho and farmers and ranchers spent an hour meeting with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke June 2. They covered a wide range of topics important to the state’s and nation’s farming industries.
Farmers and ranchers described a private meeting with two of President Donald Trump’s cabinet members June 2 as unprecedented and historic.
Instead of addressing the group, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke listened and took notes, according to those who were there.
“They just didn’t have an agenda. They truly wanted to listen to us,” said Aberdeen potato farmer Ritchey Toevs. “It was a pro-producer meeting. It was a completely different experience than I’ve ever had.”
“They didn’t really say much. They let us do the talking,” said Jerome dairyman Mike Roth. “I feel like I witnessed a little bit of history today.”
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This should be an example to those who don’t think TRUMP is accomplishing anything positive.
Of course, the MSM won’t dare mention a word of this ‘on air’.
What? The Federal Government listening to we the people? What the heck?
Trump Effect!
Now if the Farmers and Ranchers can get the idea of Congressional Stewardship Charters into the meetings, that would go a long way in resolving the dispute with the Bundy’s and Hammond’s.
As someone who has been in ‘Ag’ in various forms for about 20 years now, this makes my heart very HAPPY! Let’s Square Dance! Yee-HAW! :)
‘The Farmer and the Cowman’
Rogers & Hammerstein, ‘Oklahoma!’
The farmer and the cowman should be friends.
Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends.
One man likes to push a plough, the other likes to chase a cow,
But that’s no reason why they cain’t be friends.
Territory folks should stick together,
Territory folks should all be pals.
Cowboys dance with farmer’s daughters,
Farmers dance with the ranchers’ gals. (repeat)
I’d like to say a word for the farmer,
He come out west and made a lot of changes
He come out west and built a lot of fences,
And built ‘em right acrost our cattle ranges.
The farmer is a good and thrifty citizen, no matter what the cowman says of things.
You seldom see ‘em drinkin’ in a bar room
Unless somebody else is buyin’ drinks.
But the farmer and the cowman should be friends.
Oh, the famer and the cowman should be friends.
The cowman ropes a cow with ease, the farmer steals her butter and cheese, but that’s no reason why they can’t be friends.
Territory folks should stick together,
Territory folks should all be pals.
Cowboys dance with farmer’s daughters,
Farmers dance with the ranchers’ gals.
I’d like to say a word for the cowboy, the road he treads is difficult and stoney.
He rides for days on end with jist a pony for a friend.
I sure am feelin’ sorry for the pony!
The farmer should be sociable with the cowboy if he rides by and asks for food and water.
Don’t treat him like a louse make him welcome in your house.
But be sure that you lock up your wife and daughters!
Territory folks should stick together,
Territory folks should all be pals.
Cowboys dance with farmer’s daughters,
Farmers dance with the ranchers’ gals!
Making this country girls heart jump a bit too !
A listener. How enlightening !
I know right. I submit to my overlords?
The government listening to the people.
(As it should have been all along.)
Trump effect, indeed !
MAGA !!
Perdue is a chicken raiser. He understands that the doers need some relief
Regardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers when they decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress’s favor, FDR’s justices wrongly ignored the following imo.
They ignored that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate the INTRAstate commerce activities of these professions.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." -Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"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.
Only when buyer and seller of farm and ranch-related products are domeciled in different states or nation does Congress have constitutional authority to regulate commerce imo.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Major change for EPA and other departments holding “stakeholder” meetings with environmental groups and fake citizen groups and then issuing edicts saying “we met with everyone important”.
Neil Kornze (Dingy’s minion at the BLM) beat a hasty retreat on Jan 20.....
Perdue came to our church a few weeks ago to give the sermon. I had no idea this guy was such a devoted Christian.
During the Refuge Standoff, Candidate Trump said many things, all good and perfectly crafted in terms of reasoning and common sense.
One of the things was that as President, he would not automatically give federal lands back to states because he wasn’t agreeing with what the States would do with the land. Many took issue with this position but I saw it as the perfect response.
Giving lands to States allows such corrupt families as the Reid Family to sell the lands or lease them in terms that enrich them. In other words, States can be just as corrupt.
Hence, the notion that Congress could establish Stewardship Charters for Farmers and Ranchers, respecting public use, would allow those lands to be in the best hands.
Families like the Bundy’s and the Hammond’s know these lands better than anyone. They should have a say in how they are used and managed.
And to prevent families in the future from positioning themselves to enrich themselves, the Charters could have bylaws requiring elections of a Board and Executives, self-regulating with term limits and arm’s length representations.
Trump winning...but, even better, America winning!!!
“Major change for EPA and other departments holding “stakeholder” meetings with environmental groups and fake citizen groups and then issuing edicts saying “we met with everyone important”.”
Like the so call Forest ‘Service’, with their plans to close thousands of miles of roads and double tracks, meeting with the ‘stakeholders’ (I’d love to punch the next libtard that uses that word!) for their input about the closures, knowing damn well beforehand they’re going to close vast areas of the forest to all vehicle traffic no matter what the public says. It’s nothing more than a way to let the public ‘vent’ in a controlled way.
MAGA! :)
From President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Agriculture Department:
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.”
Looks like these guys are about breaking that notion.
Thanks for posting.
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