Posted by Tyler T on Jul 31, 2009 in
Local Last night, Brad Miller, Granville County’s own Democratic representative to the U.S. House of Representatives voted YES to House Resolution H R 2749.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll680.xml#Y
What does this mean?
- Miller wants Granville Co. gardeners and food producers to pay a $500 annual fee just to sell their watermelons down at the crossroads or their squash at the farmers market.
- Miller has given the FDA, not the Department of Agriculture, new powers including mandatory recall authority.
- Miller wants bureaucrats at the FDA to regulate how crops are raised and harvested including elimination of the use of manure, mandating GMO animal feed, imposing animal drugs, and ordering applications of petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides.
- Miller has given the FDA the power to conduct random warrantless searches of the business records of small farmers and local food producers, without any evidence whatsoever that there has been a violation. Even farmers selling direct to consumers would have to provide the federal government with records on where they buy supplies, how they raise their crops, and a list of customers.
- If you violate any of the provisions of this bill, Miller wants to impose severe criminal and civil penalties on you including prison terms of up to 10 years and/or fines of up to $100,000 for each violation for individuals.
I guess the family farms, small organic food producers, and farmers markets of Granville county aren’t a priority to Brad Miller
Posted by Tyler T on Jul 29, 2009 in
National 
The 47 Million Uninsured
Posted by Tyler T on Jul 15, 2009 in
Local Every year, criminals and cheats pilfer over $100 billion — that’s $40 billion more than Bernie Madoff scammed off his investors — in federal benefits to which they are not legally entitled. Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, refundable tax credits, and many other programs are targets for looting.
Government fraud has been in the news lately because analysts are expecting major abuses of the Obama administration’s $787 billion stimulus plan. One Deloitte expert argued that “swindlers, con men, and thieves could siphon off as much as $50 billion” of stimulus funds, which are vulnerable because policymakers are under pressure to shovel it out the door quickly.
Read the rest here… Read more…
Posted by JayMade on Jul 9, 2009 in
Local Hagan
Call 202-224-6342
fax202-228-2563
Send a message online with or email her at Senator_Hagan@hagan.senate.gov
write to DSOB Washington, DC 20515-3301,
Burr
call 202-224-3154
fax 202-228-2981
online form : http://burr.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
Write to 217 RSOB Washington, DC 20515-3306
Feel free to copy the letter below and paste it into your e-mail composition window, or write your own letter.
Senator _____,
HR 2454, the “Cap-and-Trade” bill scheduled to come before you for a vote very soon, is nothing more than a thinly disguised energy tax that will hit every single American.
Energy companies will pass the costs of their new regulations through to consumers in the form of huge price increases, meaning higher electric bills, gas prices, and increased costs across the board.
Barack Obama has estimated the costs of this legislation to American taxpayers to be over 650 BILLION dollars over the next eight years, and that figure is no doubt just a fraction of the real cost.
But even that “modest” estimate amounts to hundreds of dollars a year in increased living expenses for every family — and will more likely cost thousands a year.
Higher costs of doing business also means companies will be forced to lay off more workers. This current economic crisis is no time for the Senate to consider both raising prices on hard-working Americans AND costing them their jobs.
As your constituent, I strongly urge you to stand up for the American people by opposing HR 2454.
Write Senator Hagan at DB-40A DSOB Washington, DC 20515-3301, urging her to oppose HR 2454.
Posted by Tyler T on Jul 2, 2009 in
National Stephen Spruiell & Kevin Williamson do an excellent job of outlining “fifty things wrong with the Waxman Markey Cap and Trade Bill” in National Review.
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YTc1MmVhMGYxY2UzNzAwMTJlODBjZjg2NDJjNmM2MWE=
POTUS – in his own words…
Video of Obama admitting cap-and-trade will cause electricity costs to skyrocket.
Yes, Mr. President, we understand what is at stake and we are mobilizing!
Posted by Tyler T on Jul 2, 2009 in
Local In the car listening to your radio, at home watching TV, on your news sites – count how many items of “news” relate to the government or “the crisis” that only government can solve and think of the following:
“Everything in the government, nothing outside the government, nothing against the government.” Benito Musselini
to·tal·i·tar·i·an [ tō tàllə térree ən ]
adjective
Definition: centralized and dictatorial: relating to or operating a centralized government system in which a single party without opposition rules over political, economic, social, and cultural life. [Early 20th century. <totality after authoritarian]
The Italian Doctrine of Fascism states: “The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State-a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values-interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.” Mussolini, Benito. 1935. Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions. Rome: Ardita Publishers. p 14.
