Casa Robino

This legislation is so broad based that technically someone with a little backyard garden could get fined and have their property seized.   It will effect anyone who produces food even if they do not sell but only consume it.  It will literally put all independent farmers and food producers out of business due to the huge amounts of money it will take to conform to factory farming methods. - Contact your members at 202-224-3121 and ask them to oppose HR 875 and S 425.

See original: Health Freedom Alliance » Criminalizing Organic and Home Growers

6000 Veterans Commited Suicide Last Year!

See original: YouTube - 6000 Veterans Commited Suicide Last Year!

Thanks for Ronald Reagan, the student loan program had become a classic case of socializing the risks and privatizing the profits. The major difference in the new legislation is simply this: instead of letting the banks pocket all the profits for their role as risk-free middlemen, students and taxpayers will reap the substantial benefits instead. Sounds good to me.

See original: OnTheCommons.org » A $67 Billion Victory for Commoners

the long-term consequences are far more disturbing. As Wedel argues, deals like the one in Chicago go well beyond simple government contracting. Private interests are increasingly eating up not just public assets or functions, but also the public power that comes with those assets, power to make policy in a way that good government demands: with transparency, accountability and with the interest of the public front and center. With each lease signed, pieces of official government disappear, as does your right as a taxpaying citizen to control what should be part of the public sphere, now and well into the future. // In resisting a seemingly easy fix, they’ll preserve for future generations the power to chart their own course, and protect the public interest without the distorting incentives that come from private control.

See original: OnTheCommons.org » Want to Buy a Bridge Cheap?