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To: monkeyshine

The short story is that the USDA has been taking raisins from every grower in the country for the past 70 years. They do not pay for them. The USDA then gives or sells these raisins to schools, and to foreign governments. Any proceeds is kept by the USDA to promote raisins around the world. The USDA claims they have to do this to support the price of raisins.

Of course this was blatantly unconstitutional and that an appeals court actually thought it was OK for the government to go onto private farms, break into barns and haul off 25%-40% of the crops is scary.


4 posted on 06/22/2015 7:48:40 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: monkeyshine

“The USDA then gives or sells these raisins to schools, and to foreign governments.”

Then there goes the argument that they were doing it to tamp down supply, since the raisins ended up satisfying demand anyway.


45 posted on 06/22/2015 9:05:40 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: monkeyshine

I would go far enough to say that it would be justifiable, at least in my mind, to remove the thieves by any means necessary. But that would be foolish, because then the government would come down on you? So what can a little guy do? Absolutely nothing.

The reason we left GBR. That things like this have gone on proves that our government is not what it is intended to be.
The founders put into place a system that would protect itself from corruption. The only problem is they didn’t consider what would happen when all 3 branches became corrupted, and the people were complacent in their Tyranny. What can you do at that point? Even if we weren’t complacent, would it even matter?


104 posted on 06/22/2015 10:28:49 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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