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agriculture
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Apr 12
Obama’s Labor Department to Kill America’s Agricultural Engine
Child Labor Laws | Farming | Department of Labor | The Daily Caller.
The Department of Labor is finishing up on a rule to designed to destroy small family farms, by prohibiting rural kids from doing farm chores.
Work done by minors running farm equipment or on 4 H projects away from their own home, are only two examples of what will be prohibited. Small farms will no longer be able to operate without the assistance from their own kids and those living nearby.
These rules are no accident. They are designed with the destruction of America’s agricultural engine in mind. Farming is hard work. Kids are inculcated with the necessary work ethic by participating in the labor at a young age. Those who have not been raised in this manner cannot imagine doing the work required to run a farm. It is rare for a person who has not been brought up in the rural lifestyle to choose and succeed in this kind of career in adulthood.
The average age of U.S. farmers exceeds 50.
In two generations, the department of labor can kill agriculture in the U.S.
15
Feb 12
FDA is Too Busy Going After Small Farmers to Effectively Deal With Drug Shortages.
FIRST THINGS FIRST!!
That Dangerous Daniel Allgyer guy, Amish, capitalist seller of unpasteurized milk must be STOPPED, and his farm shut down!
That kind of regulatory activity is top priority.
Meanwhile, there are shortages of vital medications like never before. Afflicted health care institutions must promulgate politically correct excuses for these shortages, but we know that the role of government in exacerbating this situation has been predominant.
The U.S. has some of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. Big Pharma has many incentives, from this, to the OSHA and environmental regulations, to push its production to other countries.
Inside the U.S., if a company wishes to change the site for manufacturing a product, a two year approval process awaits. This means that adapting to drug recalls and shortages is painfully slow. There are tight constraints on production quantities and schedules imposed by the FDA.
A gray market has grown around the shortages. If you know how ticket scalping works……. there are analogous drug scalpers. Since reimbursement for drugs is fixed by medicare and medicaid and other health insurers, health care institutions and providers really can’t afford the gray market prices. There is a need to allocate a team of specialists to manage adaptation to the shortages and a website for clinicians to keep current on the day to day changes and substitutions. The administrators at Pharmer’s workplace have resolved to continue to deal with the shortages without resorting to purchases from the gray market.
Who are the biggest losers? The patients!
The long term result will be to reduce the load on medicare and medicaid, and the government needs that cost containment, especially since the designers of Obamacare have admitted that their cost projections were totally wrong.
So the FDA has more incentive to attend to those dastardly small farmers, than they have to deal with the GINORMOUS drug shortage problem.
24
Jan 12
Meth-Heads Filling Hospitals With Burn Patients
My Way News – AP IMPACT: Meth fills hospitals with burn patients.
Only about 10 percent of meth heads have health insurance, so when they cook themselves while trying to cook their methamphetamine, the burden of care falls upon the hospital. The average cost of care for a meth burn patient is said to be $130,000 dollars. The financial burden of non-recovered hospital expenses has closed down at least 7 burn wards in the U.S.due to insolvency.
The most common means for self immolation among meth heads is the shake and bake method. Opening the 2 liter reaction vessel too soon or having an unplanned leakage can cause an explosion. About 70 injuries related to meth cooking have been reported in Indiana in the last two years, but who knows the real number? The burn victims aren’t too eager to tell the truth about how they were burned.
David Greenhalgh of the University of California, Davis, Burn Center says that 25-35% of the patients there test positive for meth.
28
Dec 11
Human Feces Used as Fertilizer Has Neighbors Fuming | NBC 10 Philadelphia
Human Feces Used as Fertilizer Has Neighbors Fuming | NBC 10 Philadelphia.
Pharmer thinks that these people have never heard of septic tanks and leaching beds, and is highly amused.
The “controversy” linked above has to do with Pennsylvania farms using granulite, which is fertilizer made from sewage. It contains processed human waste. Shame to waste!
Wiki leach beds!  Be afraid, be very afraid.
The Grass is Always Greener Over The Septic Tank. < — a classic
8
Dec 11
Labor Laws Designed to Gut Farming Businesses
Federal rewrite of labor laws causing a flap down on the farm – Washington Times.
Already there are too many people who have NO IDEA where their food comes from.   This has resulted in insane regulations of the farming industry.  New work regulations coming from the Obama administration, which is apparently many generations removed from food production, will forbid kids under 16 from most kinds of farm labor.
This is another one of Obama’s direct attacks on the “filthy rich” SMALL BUSINESSES, which are the backbone of America, and the source of most of its jobs.
Small family farms most often rely on the labor of the local kids to function. These business operations are most specifically IN THE CROSSHAIRS of Obama.  He and his supporters want those farms dead, and those families to starve.  (Pharmer is taking this opportunity to redirect the political rhetoric to its rightful owners.)
Justification for these regulations is that rural kids are more likely to be injured or killed than their counterparts working in other jobs.  This is also true of adult farmers too. Food production remains the most dangerous job occupation. This government has no real interest in assisting those who love the work enough to take the risk.
It’s worth a click to see some quotes from the Agricultural Sector regarding the idiotic regulations proposed by the Labor Department.
4
Dec 11
The Angel and the Devil
ANGEL
This mom has had 15 kids, and after receiving quite a bit of assistance from social services neighbors, landlords, etc is Angry. She says that someone has to PAY! Someone has to be HELD ACCOUNTABLE! Angel has some similarities with the Occupy Wall Street crowd.
DEVIL
Smell the sulfur and smoke! Newt thinks that kids would obtain a better work ethic and self respect by having a bit of cash paying work experience before they’re sixteen. Yep, he’s basically correct on this matter. Every rural family knows this.
Incidentally, the lefties are in the process of regulating child labor on family farms. They would like to crush all family businesses out of existence, leaving only a small number of large corporations, with cowardly boards of directors, which can be more easily controlled by government.
24
Nov 11
For Thanksgiving: Blast from the Past
You know what health care workers do on the holidays…..
Pharmer used to play “All Good Gifts” from Godspell in church, this time of year. Above is a nice grab from Dawnsearlylight on Youtube.
It’s a good one for Thanksgiving.
Here’s the earlier hymn “We Plough the Fields and Scatter”, from Slim5819 on Youtube.
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Nov 11
A Hedge Fund Operater of Conscience
Ann Barnhardt Shuts Down Hedge Firm With ‘Going Galt’ Letter | TheBlaze.com.
Ann Barnhardt, has shut down her brokerage which specialized in the cattle and grain futures and options.  This move seems to have been propelled by the handling of the MF Global firm run by Jon Corzine, which shuttered and ripped off the cash of its customers. The accounts were frozen and the owners were not allowed to liquidate while the rest of the markets continued trading.  Barnhardt says that this differed from the usual response of the market which had been to allow customers’ assets to remain liquid when a firm broke down, while its function could be replaced by another firm.  The reason for the difference appears to be the connectedness of Jon Corzine to the Obama administration.  It has cost his customers the money they invested, plus it could eventually put assets which they had recently removed from MF Global at risk too.
Over a thousand people are laid off at MF Global, and their clients money has disappeared.
Barnhardt’s evaluation is that the basis for the system of leveraged futures trading has been ripped away, and she can no longer in good conscience advise anyone to invest their money in what is now an entirely unsupported system. She recommends that other hedge fund investors get out of the newly unprotected market which is also threatened by the financial instability of Europe.
You can read the entire farewell letter written by Ann Barnhardt at her politically incorrect blog, which she says will continue to remain in operation. There are no kind words for the Obama administration, which she blames for the bulk of the MF Global disaster. Also available for your viewing interest is the AnnBarnhardt youtube channel.
14
Aug 11
Bob McCarty: Another Farm Raid Hits Rabbit Expert Debe Bell
After a warrant-less entry and search, cops removed the rabbits from Debi Bell’s farm and placed them in inappropriate conditions of storage at the Jefferson County fairgrounds. (The search warrant was produced after the search, and decision to remove the rabbits was made.) Some of the rabbits belonged to 4-H kids who were raising them to be shown at the fairs.
This bust by the Jefferson County Sheriff in Colorado has caused farmers to be afraid to show small animals at the Colorado State Fair.
They’re afraid that their farms will be busted too, just like that of Debi Bell. This is even after the State fair officials have extended the deadline of entry and agreed not to display the names of rabbit owners in order to protect them from the nuts who have caused the arrest of Debi Bell.
Bloggers, please hit the links above and pass this story on. Apparently the local press in Colorado needs to be goaded into covering the facts of this story.
You might feel moved to contact the Jefferson County, Colorado Sheriff’s office to inquire about the case. Here’s the Animal Control Office Contact info.
The House Rabbit Society is apparently associated with this raid and may need your attention also. Here’s the Colorado chapter link. Maybe they need advice on how to tend to animals which their volunteers help to remove from farms.
Foothills Animal Shelter is adopting out (SELLING) Debe’s bunnies on Weds Aug 17.
12
Aug 11
Horrors! ABC Finds Kids Picking Berries – (Instead of Sex Work in Portland).
Feds Find Young Children Working Strawberry Farms – ABC News.
The above link points to an agonizing story at ABC about kids being brought with their parents to work in berry farms in Washington State.
Specifically the ABC reporters cheer on the Feds who bust farmers whose workers are bringing their kids with them to work.
Unmentioned is where the kids ought to be while both parents are picking berries in the summer. Perhaps these lefties are volunteering their own services to babysit?
There is journalistic hand wringing over the fact that farms are the most dangerous work situation, and proclamations that kids should not be exposed to such an environment.
Of course farms are dangerous. This is NOT news. A sarcastic person might mention that farms are a system of natural selection for humans which operates more effectively, with far fewer deaths than the abortion programs offered by the leftists.
Pharmer understands that the pretense of concern for children is for the purpose of obtaining more government control and allow consolidation of the small farms into something more easily overseen by our “rulers”.
If the reader has time to view the ABC video included in their story, a group of steady working kids will be seen, all of whom appear much more robust than the girl which the CWA Union worker stationed in front of a Verizon truck. (Natural selection, or just outdoor living?)
Complaints about lost schooling would have been moot up until the time of balanced calendars which hold kids inside all summer and prevent them from working on farms, or being freed to the outdoors for two and a half months of playtime, or holding some other employment.
One of the ABC reporters seemed shocked that kids get bruises on their knees– a thing which happens whether they’re working or playing. Pharmer suspects that few of these reporters and investigators have reproduced. This could be a good thing….
What about the last half of he headline?  Earlier berry farm busts have been in Michigan, but the latest bust reported by ABC is in Washington State.
Note for comparison…Â the number of investigators combing the fields looking for kids working alongside their parents… and contrary to the reporters claims, essentially working FOR their subcontracting parents.
The Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor, which is overseeing investigations of berry picking supposedly had planned to pick up 250 new field inspectors after ABCs news investigation.  The 2011 budget allocation was for 1672 employees in the WHD alone. It has a special division office in Portland Oregon.
As you know, Pharmer likes to pick on Portland, Oregon, the U.S. capital of child sex slavery, because it has only TWO vice cops allocated to address that and the other socially unacceptable practices.
Pharmer doesn’t mind seeing  kids picking berries in a Washington field with their parents in the summer. The hard work might give them incentive to study harder during the rest of the year, to obtain the chance at better jobs. There is no caste system here. Picking berries is much healthier for a kid than working in Portland.
Some people do not live under ideal economic circumstances, and are inclined to co-opt all members of the family to help with the job of survival.  Pharmer supports the opportunities for kids to be working with their own families, rather than being sold into a life of slavery.
Perhaps that offends some leftists…… or would it narrow their access to a desired commodity ??
1
Aug 11
A CDL License to Operate a Tractor on Your OWN FARM?
Agenda 21 Update – DOT’s regulatory attack on family farms | Video | TheBlaze.com.
Looks as though the Dept of Transportation is vying with the TSA and EPA with most hated agency award.
There’s an idea to require farmers to earn a Commercial Driver’s License in order to drive their own tractors on their own farms. This is likely driven by a socialist agenda to eliminate the small businesses, leaving a smaller group of large agribusinesses, which can more easily be moved under direct government control.
This information should be promulgated to any farmer in your circle of friends.
Pharmer suspects that such a regulation will be met with an extreme lack of desire to cooperate.
9
Jul 11
Oak Park Resident May Face Jail For Planting Vegetables
in her front yard.
Click to check out this cool garden: Does Michelle Obama Know About This? | The Agitator.
The Bass family of Oak Park, Michigan decided to plant vegetables in their front yard after a sewer line was replaced. Since the grass was torn up, and the yard trashed, they determined to do something useful and put in beautiful raised beds of vegetables.
City planner Kevin Rulkowski has deemed this unsuitable use of private property, and has proffered a new definition of that word, to justify prosecution of one Julie Bass, for the offense of planting vegetables in her own front yard.
Ms. Bass has demanded a jury trial and may face up to 93 days in jail if convicted of illicit vegetable planting.
Take one more look under the top link to see that vegetable garden.
For your convenience, the contact information for the city officials (including Mr Rulkowski) of Oak Park is clickable right HERE.  They might appreciate suggestions of more useful things to do besides bothering the Bass family.
Visit Julie Bass’s blog: Oakparkhatesveggies to keep up to date. The big showdown is planned for July 26th.
9
Jun 11
The Amazing Chicken Head
“Chicken’s head is like a steadycam”
Pharmer finds this fact fascinating, as well as admiring the video itself.
6
Jun 11
Dangerous Arugula!
“alfalfa sprouts, mung bean sprouts, radish sprouts and arugula sprouts from the farm might be connected to the outbreak. Raw sprouts are popular among Germans and often mixed in salads or added to sandwiches.”
via Germany says beansprouts may be behind E.coli – Yahoo! News.
Germany is still shooting down raw vegetables, shot gun style, looking for the virulent strain of E. Coli, ravaging the GI tracts of its citizens.
By the time they’re government ag and health officials are done, Germans will be cooking whatever few vegetables they eat for a day before consuming them…… leaving no nutritional benefits but the fiber.
The Uelzen Farm in Germany is one more industry to be shut down as a result of the “search” for the source of the E. Coli.
One thing is certain……..it will not be easy for the Germans to follow the Michelle Obama diet for awhile.
You can help!