“We don’t want to quit, we were forced out of the business. We can’t spend enough money to comply,” he said. “We’ve been farming for 117 years. I’m the third generation and we’re being put out of business by the government. We can’t comply with all of the safety laws. We haven’t poisoned anybody with an ear of corn for 117 years and we’ve shipped it all over,” he said.
“I can fight the bugs, I can fight the lack of rain, but when the guy comes with a clipboard what are you going to do?” Bessemer said.
Related: More Welfare Recipients Than Workers In The US
Remember from the last election, US voters, you are a part of government, and that can’t be free so pay up, including subsidizing the “poor” investors. In addition to your taxes, this will now include your 401K from which you will be forced to put part of in government bonds, “secured” with “annuities” which purchase more short-term government debt. After all we’re just asking for a “little bit more” from you “rich” so your “fair share” becomes even more! No wonder the statists and unions are in love with this idea.
How can this be a bad idea when these bonds are backed by the government’s “unlimited power of taxation?” Except, well – never mind.
Odd how those who are into “sustainable” this, that and the other never once consider a “sustainable” economy.
It seems to me that the only time we ever see anyone from the government is when they are chastising us, accusing us, prosecuting us, dipping into our pocket or when we have to go hat in hand and beg them for permission to do just about anything.
When most citizens no longer see any representative of the government as a positive, but as a parasite, how long can civil society last?
When more people get to the point of having “No Responsibility” then the responsible have a
real problem. Where do you go what do you do? You are responsible until the Govt. finds a way
to make you rely on it.
Welfare, food stamps Obama phones and an endless supply of Bu_ _ S_ _t rains down on us everyday.
Relentless…………
Related: http://accordingtohoyt.com/2013/07/06/if-you-dont-work-you-die/
Taken from the post:
“There is no such a thing as a lack of food in the world. And when there is in a particular region, at a particular time, it is usually the result of a truly craptastic government.”
America is spiraling toward famine. Maybe when the welfare crowd starts starving, things will improve.
But probably not.
Don’t laugh. When you count the actual number of tax paying,revenue producing Canucks,we are even worse than the USSA.
According to E.O. Wilson in insect societies you get the minimum number of most efficient producers and the maximum number of least efficient producers. Unfortunately he did not predict the maximum number of non-producers (idlers, drones) supported by such a society. At the end of summer bees throw out the drones to die.
And what would you say to Atlas ?
Oh well, shades of Ontario.
Most of the private sector prefers to hide in the long grass and pretend that there’s nothing wrong, rather than standing up and calling the bastards out.
Now whenever I hear the word “safety” I presume that there’s some totalitarian government intrusion into my life involved. The only thing this will do is to raise the price of food even more and lower the quality as many farmers figure it’s cheaper to bribe the inspector and ship some “safety inspected” third world vegetables grown in a field that doubles as a latrine for the local village.
There’s an insane need for bureaucrats to track every little detail of farm production as they seem to have just discovered that here’s an industry that has been without the guiding hand of the state all these years. The simplest thing would be just to shut down all “organic” farms as it seems that 90+% of food born infections are from such establishments. Whenever one institutes such detailed record keeping, the net result is the employment of more useless eaters, oops I meant bureaucrats to deal with the deluge of data. In addition to the bureaucrats, it’s also necessary to hire more police to arrest those people who aren’t thrilled with new regulations and more lawyers to work as prosecutors. As DrD has pointed out the whole practice is quite unsustainable.
What I suggest people do is to start phoning up the local department of “sustainability” in their town (every place seems to have one now) and start ranting about the unsustainability of endless regulation. If they try to tell you that they just deal with “environmental sustainability” point out to these moonbats that humans are an integral part of the environment and are held in very high regard by Gaia. What is unnatural are endless regulations which, if the process continues, will use 95% of N. America’s resources and the response to widespread starvation will be the hiring of some well fed bureaucrats to document the problem and propose new regulations to deal with it.
To paraphrase Himmler?, whenever I hear the word “safety” I click off the safety catch on my revolver.
‘The proposed regulations would limit the use of animals in the fields and put limits on the use of manure as a fertilizer. “We’re hoping for variances that allow us to put diapers on the horses,” Dresbach said.’
So…they want a variance so that the Amish will be allowed to use horses in their fields, provided the horse wears a nappy.
Are they going to have to diaper the wild deer and rabbits too???
The world has gone mad.