….perhaps the greatest wrongs committed in Washington are discovered too-late in\u00a0what is known as the Christmas Tree bill.\u00a0 That’s when all the pet projects of all the corrupt lawmakers are loaded\u00a0onto a “must-pass” bill to keep the government running.\u00a0 It comes up for a vote—all the bad stuff hidden among the required stuff—at the last minute before the politicians head home for the holidays.<\/p>\n
This year, the Christmas Tree bill was that Omnibus spending bill rammed through by Speaker Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi.\u00a0 Let’s say you’re a lawmaker and you have a bank in your district that wants to confiscate the savings of widows and orphans. Well, you put it in the Omnibus spending bill and everyone votes for it…they have to.\u00a0 You wouldn’t want to de-fund the military, would you?<\/p>\n
That’s the choice.\u00a0 And so this time—along with dozens of other bad ideas—-the politicians have ended the “Country of Origin” labeling requirements.\u00a0 From now on, you just won’t know where your meat comes from….and it’s going to come from some places without any safety guarantees at all.\u00a0 (Which is different from the worthless USDA guarantees)<\/p>\n
We missed it….it wasn’t worth singling out in the news coverage of that atrocious piece of legislation.\u00a0 In Washington, Speaker Ryan is now praised for proving that he can make the system “work” again.\u00a0 And all the\u00a0 easy-answer people are saying “huzzah, gridlock is finally over”…Republicans and Democrats are working together”.\u00a0 Of course they are….to get their Christmas envelopes from the lobbyists.<\/p>\n
Sorry, I’m late posting this.\u00a0 I was distracted by the holidays.\u00a0 But, of course, that’s the point!\u00a0 It’s comforting to know that Washington is “working” again.<\/p>\n
Merry Christmas……Monsanto!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
….perhaps the greatest wrongs committed in Washington are discovered too-late in\u00a0what is known as the Christmas Tree bill.\u00a0 That’s when all the pet projects of all the corrupt lawmakers are loaded\u00a0onto a “must-pass” bill to keep the government running.\u00a0 It comes up for a vote—all the bad stuff hidden among the required stuff—at the last minute before the politicians head home for the holidays. This year, the Christmas Tree bill was that Omnibus spending bill rammed through by Speaker Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi.\u00a0 Let’s say you’re a lawmaker and you have a bank in your district that wants to confiscate the savings of widows and orphans. Well, you put it in the Omnibus spending bill and everyone votes for it…they have to.\u00a0 You wouldn’t want to de-fund the military, would you? That’s the choice.\u00a0 And so this time—along with dozens of other bad ideas—-the politicians have ended the “Country of Origin” labeling requirements.\u00a0 From now on, you just won’t know where your meat comes from….and it’s going to come from some places without any safety guarantees at all.\u00a0 (Which is different from the worthless USDA guarantees) We missed it….it wasn’t worth singling out in the news coverage of that atrocious piece of legislation.\u00a0 In Washington, Speaker Ryan is now praised for proving that he can make the system “work” again.\u00a0 And all the\u00a0 easy-answer people are saying “huzzah, gridlock is finally over”…Republicans and Democrats are working together”.\u00a0 Of course they are….to get their Christmas envelopes from the lobbyists. Sorry, I’m late posting this.\u00a0 I was distracted by the holidays.\u00a0 But, of course, that’s the point!\u00a0 It’s comforting to know that Washington is “working” again. Merry Christmas……Monsanto!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27,45,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-government","category-monsanto","category-on-the-soap-box"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4660,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}