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john commented on the article |Isn't globalization and the harmonization of laws great. Sure is if you are of and for the corporation.
I quite agree that this food scare is almost entirely to push through awful legislation that is not even written. What is that, pure and simple insanity. Lets have then foxes watch the henhouse.
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Yep, this is just bad legislation being foisted down our throats by the corporatists, using another crisis to push their agenda for total control. WAKE UP!!!!!!!
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john commented on the article |Maybe if the government stopped subsidizing the industrial agriculturalists it would happen. I have a hard time pricing my product to compete against the junk served in school.
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john commented on the article |Why not live by the constitution and end grain subsidies. This would eliminate the strangle hold Monsanto has as pastoral/sustainable farming would be the choice for those growing food like me.
Following the constitution gets you where most people want to be. As opposed to the leviathon that government has become, we need to figure out the root causes of our problems and work to addressing those. Health care reform is a joke, simply sick care reform. If you internalized the costs of production, in protecting private property rights, of pollutants, used those funds to subsidize health care (or other unintended consequences of the pollutants) then we would actually see the Change that your Prophet spoke of. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing, not doing anything except trying to move us faster to the fascist nation that we have been headed towards.
A great example of the insights that our leaders spew is AG Holders comment on AZ law which mirrors federal law (not enforced), yet he admits he has not read the short 17 page law. Idiots rule this kook house and you follow in lock step because it is not Bush, yet headed largely down the same path.
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john commented on the article |The real issue with the tea party movement (that is a loose term as their is no organizational structure and people can claim that they are a part without conforming to any principles that many who started it are for) is that it has begun to lift the veil (apocolysus - greek meaning is a lifting of the veil) of control that the ruling elite has over the people and how they manipulate us. The new national crisis of school lunches is a prime example of this. Maybe if the government did not subsidize corn and soy which is largely undigestable by humans unless fermented, we would not have the obesity problem we have today. The government is largely the problem we face today.
As opposed to seeking out how to make things fair through taxation, you should seek out how to make things fair by undoing policies that foster that environment, ensure that energy is taxed in a fashion that its costs are internalized and such that some of its ability to foster an environment that consolidates wealth is used to help promote the justice you seek, through funding unemployment programs as opposed to taxing employers (who keep people employed) for this benefit.
Seek out the root causes of our problems as opposed to applying bandaids as is done today, which simply creates more business"/economic activity and thus tax revenue for the state.
Maybe health care reform needs first and foremost should start with fixing our food as it has lost over 50% of its nutritional value in the past 100 years.
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john commented on the article |
The real issue with the tea party movement (that is a loose term as their is no organizational structure and people can claim that they are a part without conforming to any principles that many who started it are for) is that it has begun to lift the veil (apocolysus - greek meaning is a lifting of the veil) of control that the ruling elite has over the people and how they manipulate us. The new national crisis of school lunches is a prime example of this. Maybe if the government did not subsidize corn and soy which is largely undigestable by humans unless fermented, we would not have the obesity problem we have today. The government is largely the problem we face today.
As opposed to seeking out how to make things fair through taxation, you should seek out how to make things fair by undoing policies that foster that environment, ensure that energy is taxed in a fashion that its costs are internalized and such that some of its ability to foster an environment that consolidates wealth is used to help promote the justice you seek, through funding unemployment programs as opposed to taxing employers (who keep people employed) for this benefit.
Seek out the root causes of our problems as opposed to applying bandaids as is done today, which simply creates more business"/economic activity and thus tax revenue for the state.
Maybe health care reform needs first and foremost should start with fixing our food as it has lost over 50% of its nutritional value in the past 100 years.
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john commented on the article |
The real issue with the tea party movement (that is a loose term as their is no organizational structure and people can claim that they are a part without conforming to any principles that many who started it are for) is that it has begun to lift the veil (apocolysus - greek meaning is a lifting of the veil) of control that the ruling elite has over the people and how they manipulate us. The new national crisis of school lunches is a prime example of this. Maybe if the government did not subsidize corn and soy which is largely undigestable by humans unless fermented, we would not have the obesity problem we have today. The government is largely the problem we face today.
As opposed to seeking out how to make things fair through taxation, you should seek out how to make things fair by undoing policies that foster that environment, ensure that energy is taxed in a fashion that its costs are internalized and such that some of its ability to foster an environment that consolidates wealth is used to help promote the justice you seek, through funding unemployment programs as opposed to taxing employers (who keep people employed) for this benefit.
Seek out the root causes of our problems as opposed to applying bandaids as is done today, which simply creates more business"/economic activity and thus tax revenue for the state.
Maybe health care reform needs first and foremost should start with fixing our food as it has lost over 50% of its nutritional value in the past 100 years.
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john commented on the article |
Martin,
You ever stop to think that some might not appreciate that the Tea Party is/was gaining momentum as it has some logic behind it? The NY times article about the movement stated that most of the people who identified with it did not think much of Palin. That is true of most people who I knew who were involved prior to the 2008 elections.
Another question to the progressives who do not like profit. So what amount of profit should I be allowed to make in growing food from seeds I save, that are adapted to my environment? My profit margin is about 100% on growing them. How much profit should be allowed to pay for the wages, for heating a building, etc when it comes to a sole proprietor, a partnership of a large partnership (a corporation where people come together to cooperate in funding a business). How much profit will be needed to pay government workers, fund their pensions which are so far underfunded in many states taxes will need to raise taxes again on taxpayers to make good on promises to state workers while other pension holders lose benefits and many pensions have gone away.
Enough on profit, which is making something in return for ones hard work.
I did a lot of philosophizing while out of town and pondered on an issue that upsets most americans, obscene pay. Why should anyone make over X $, seven figures is excessive in my book when some make less than 20k.
So from wholistic management training, what facilitates those pay levels. For the athlete, sales person (internet) it is the ability to be in multiple places at once. It used to be that to enjoy a sport you had to go to the event, then radio expanded the reach of sports and then TV. The same goes with selling products, the reach of the marketer is so much greater today than it was in the early 1900's and prior because of their reach and the distribution system facilitated by energy and roads/rails.
If we did not have this system Wal Mart would not be so devastating to the local economy. Then throw in stocks and debt instruments which are easier for Wal Mart to obtain than the individual. (No I have never seen Arron Rusos video, I think you asked).
How did this come about, and why has it grown. Part is legislation that makes it favorable for individuals to have a home mortgage as opposed to paying it off. Part is legislation that facilitates tax free saving for retirement in stocks and bonds (however, not anything that could benefit yourself for the most part). Part is the culture of debt we have in this country. Which has allowed people to earn an income selling products to others based upon what they will earn in the future.
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john commented on the article |
What we need from our country is a movement to bring decisions back closer to the citizens such that the citizens can be watch dogs. What if we eliminated most functions of the federal government and moved them back to the states. This would accomplish the goal for the legislation that you put up. Today it is too easy for the feds to be lobbied by corporations. If the corporations had 50 bodies to lobby to they would be far less effective at pushing their agenda.
We need to reclaim government for the people. The federal government is an abomination and needs returned to its limited role as proposed. Decisions need pushed down to levels as low as humanely possible. Just as there are economies of scale there are diseconomies of scale and the federal government is a shining example of that and proposed legislation for ag shows just how bad and draconian the feds have become. It is no longer about the people it is about corporations and how to get them more control. That is the struggle the world has faced forever, our constitution removed that control from the hands of the powerful and returned it to the people.
One last thought, Robin Hood did not steal from the rich, he stole tax money from the tax man and gave it back to the tax payers. Yet we are led to believe he stole from the rich to give to the poor.
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john commented on the article |
Martin,
The common good of the citizens is facilitated by a government that protects the individuals right to live a life free from others taking their rights to property, be it clean air, water, the fruits of ones labor. This is where it gets to the point that I lose you. However, the government in its actions to facilitate a banking system which creates money from nothing to loan to people, debases our currency stealing from those who save and act responsibly while rewarding those who consume.
Here is a tea party proposal, the tea party is a loosely based organization with no real structure except that it values the input of people imo, to reduce the cost of health care.
Give everyone a $1-2000/year stipend to pay for their health care. Give everyone a high deductible insurance plan (which is probably no longer available to me given the law as passed) so that if they have a catastrophic event then they have coverage.
Personally the tea party movement is a movement away from the "nanny state", which we have been moving towards for decades. It is a movement towards empowering people to be personally responsible for their actions. It is a movement back to true free markets, in which the government regulates industry such that it does not trample on the private property rights of the general public, where costs of production are internalized. Such that diesel emissions from trucks in the inner city get an impact fee imposed on them. Take that money and use it to help offset the costs of treating asthma.
What is being proposed by the progressives leaves out the individual to help drive down the cost of health insurance. It is a system in which provides everything needed for the individual, such that the individual has no responsibility to take control. It is a system in which the only way to control costs is to mandate what procedures can be done and for how much. It is a system in which the patient has ZERO concern for the cost of a procedure. It is a plan that does not hold doctors responsible for a bad procedure as the payer (insurance company/government) is so far removed from what is happening that they can not know what should be paid and what should not.
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