Posted on 07/07/2014 11:47:30 AM PDT by grundle
"They want us to pay for our own raisins that we grew," says Raisin Valley Farms owner Marvin Horne. "We have to buy them back!"
This is but one absurdity that Marvin and his wife Laura have faced during their decade-long legal battle with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Every year, the Hornes plant seeds, tie vines, harvest fruit, and place grapes in paper trays to create sun-dried raisins. And every year, the federal government prevents them from bringing their full harvest to market.
It's called an agriculture marketing order. Depression-era regulations meant to stabilize crop prices endanger the livelihoods of small farmers across the country, but the raisin marketing order is particularly egregious. An elected board of bureaucrats known as the Raisin Administrative Committee decides what the proper yield should be in any given year in order to meet a previously decided-upon price. Once they can estimate the size of the year's harvest, they force every farmer to surrender a percentage of their crop...
The tipping point came in 2003, when farmers received zero dollars in return for the 47 percent of the crop they had surrendered.
Luckily for the Hornes, however, the Supreme Court took the case and ruled, in a 9-0 decision
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
They need to read The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn. It details and pulls together the strings that make other historical records and narratives I’ve read make sense.
Roosevelt and his minions were pure progressive socialists who found little fault with communism, national socialism, or fascism other than in their methods.
After the first time I read the book I wanted to lead a movement to dig up FDR and defile the corpse like the English did to Cromwell.
lol
“Funny you reference “loan sharks”, because that’s where the payday loan customers have to go for the same service.
The difference being that the payday lenders send you to collections, and loan sharks send you to the hospital.”
I seen some collection agencies that operate very closely to the Mafia “lenders.”
So I take it that you are o.k. with payday lenders?
Actually, nothing’s won yet. The SC ruled that the 9th Circus was incorrect in ruling it had no jurisdiction in the matter - the Supremes disagree, and so the case will proceed to trial unless the 9th Circus Klowns devise another reason to avoid this case like the plague. Should plaintiffs prevail, there will be a tsunami of similar cases filed against the unconstitutional Boards and Administrations and “marketing plans” FDR imposed on the agricultural community, and even more cases, G-d willing, against collectivist tsars in every sector of our economy.
Most people were never taught the facts about FDR and most will refuse to believe it.
Yep, and so does Dr Sowell:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2800469/posts
I’ve known very few who would believe it. My grandfather who lived through and maintained a small business throughout the depression was one. He despised FDR and democrats in general and knew very well that in his state that the KKK among other groups were politically tied to the democrat party, Tom Pendergast, and directly to FDR and his advisors.
“Yep, and so does Dr Sowell:”
Good article. But these payday folks are like the credit card people, because they prey on idiots who don’t know how to manage money. But then, now with bankruptcy laws, we all get to “help” these people when they finally go under. We have made “credit” way too easy for too many.
Not to worry, though - Eric Holder rode to the rescue a year ago and put all online lenders out of business, not through law, but through leveraging their oversight of mergers within the banking system -
“don’t service these businesses or we won’t approve any of your mergers or other conduct of business”.
Look for them to do the same thing with gun dealers.
Wow that’s scary. If anything should demonstrate the government has way too much power, unregulated even, it’s that.
Talk about just writing your own law to suit your agenda.
That may be true, but in this country, we are becoming less and less free.
See also #14 ...
This policy actually started as part of FDR’s New Deal.
Thank you for your explanation in post 9.
No. But we can and should blame the fascist Worm on the Dime.
Exactly so.
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