Re: OFF TOPIC, Sorry, But This Infuriates Me!


"Rick N. Backer" <ken.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:dtnr5316b9h6ohvv8va3tdiis1ckh7i28d@xxxxxxxxxx
On Wed, 30 May 2007 14:33:55 -0500, "Elvis Kabong"
<ampscience@xxxxxxxxxxxx> did courageously avow:

USDA to free market: Go Cheney yourself.

by Kagro X
Wed May 30, 2007 at 12:00:11 PM PDT
You're not gonna believe this one. Oh wait, of course you will:

The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing
all
their animals for mad cow disease.

You read that right. The Bush "administration" will fight to keep meatpackers from
testing their animals for mad cow disease.

WTF? How does stupid *** like this always end up happening?

A beef producer in the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants
to
test all of its cows.

Great! Wonderful! Everybody's gonna want their meat from Creekstone Farms! Free
enterprise at its best! Give the people what they want!

Not so fast, says the "administration." The people can go Cheney themselves.

But why? Why the hell would anyone get in the way of something like that? And on what
grounds?

Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone should test its meat
and
advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive tests on their larger
herds as well.

The Agriculture Department regulates the test and argued that widespread testing
could
lead to a false positive that would harm the meat industry.

Oh my God. F this. Are you kidding me?

I'm at a loss here. But thankfully, Rick Perlstein at .common sense is not:

First, observe the contempt for liberty. When E. coli conservatives say
self-regulation
is preferable to government, they're even lying about that. Second, observe the
contempt
for small business. When a small company want to - voluntarily! - hold its product to
a
higher standard, the government blocks it, in part because bigger companies have to
be
protected from the competition, in part because a theoretical threat to the bottom
line
(false positives) trumps protection against a deadly disease.

There's your conservatism, America: not extremism in defense of liberty. State
socialism
in defense of Mad Cow.

~Daily Kos

You know your constitution was re-written. It now reads "government
of the people" not "for the people".

--
Ken Wilson
http://www.myspace.com/bcislander

I think you have it wrong. It appears to be rewritten though:
"A government of the corporation, by the corporation and for the corporation."

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