Time for another “Boston Tea Party” just on soil! People need to start standing up to our “government.”

Shame on them and then shame on us.

Wow, you’re so sure that you’re totally right and everyone else is totally wrong –you should be in government, if you’re not there already!

It is close-minded, arrogant attitudes like those expressed in your comment that brought us NAIS, the American Community Survey, and all other government abominations forced down everybody else’s throat.

Tom A

I suggest we set up an action alert to these four, and in the case of Ron Paul, remind him of his Texas Straight Talk article on May 29, 2007, entitled “Stop the NAIS”, where he said:

“In typical Washington-speak, NAIS is “voluntary” - provided USDA bureaucrats are satisfied with the level of cooperation. Trust me, NAIS will be mandatory within a few years. When was the last time a new federal program did not expand once implemented?”

Big talk, little (constitutional) action, Mr. Paul.

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And I’m very disappointed to see Ron Paul put his name on this bill again.

And remember folks, Emerson is on the “Naughty List” for a reason.

Mari in Wis., the only thing Emerson has a “grip on” is the big dollars she gets from big agri-businesses!

Isn’t “their” job to think of ways to “protect us” and waste our money? It’s not ???
Geez I’m about to choke on my lab meat sandwich…you mean
we could actually be okay with fewer stupid laws and less government interference in our lives?

You mean if we had no animal I.D. program and bought local, the world wouldn’t come crashing down?

What next? A balanced budget and real constitutional rights ? Smaller government?
Oh my, how will we survive!!

bottom line - don’t volunteer for stupid government programs, don’t elect those who think them up or fund them… if it ever becomes mandatory, defend your rights, and don’t eat lab meat sandwiches either!

Victory garden…even if it’s two tomato plants in a barrell on the patio. That is that much less that comes from who knows where. Most of us live within a short distance of a farmers market or farm stand. Buy some. Help an american farmer rather than a chinese corporation. There are even farmers markets in NYC.

No, this bill is not perfect; I can think of a number of ways I’d rather see it written, and some added features.

HOWEVER, it is a pretty decent start…a far cry from where we were a year or two ago. If the Feds go this way, in statute, then we have yet another challenge for our State legislatures: ” hey, the Feds decided it wasn’t worth the money and bother, so you shouldn’t waste our tax money either.”

Tom A

Emerson actually introduced this a while ago, shortly after the commencement of the 110th Congress in January.

Unfortunately, it is the same bill as the Talent/Emerson legislation from last fall, with the same bad aspects — namely, it enshrines a “voluntary” NAIS in federal law, where none now exists (and we know just how “involuntary” that voluntary NAIS can be); and it gives the industrial farming shills and microchippers one of their most hoped-for benefits, the exemption from FOIA disclosure, which is bad for our side, because without such an exemption, at some point, the USDA premises-registration system will probably fail (because industrial farmers won’t want to put data into a system where it might be disclosed in response to FOIA requests).