Sixth Congressional District covers 26 counties in North West Missouri. Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Clay, Clinton, Cooper, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Holt, Howard, part of Jackson, Linn, Livingston, Mercer, Nodaway, Platte, Putnam, Schuyler, Sullivan, and Worth.
Posted by Paul Hamby on 02/27/10 Last updated 02/27/10
To: Republicans in Congress
Before you support a compromise on Obama's Health bill, please review this list of bipartisan, reach across the aisle, lets just work together failures.
(Quiz at the bottom)
McCain-Feingold Finance Reform
Medicare Prescription drug entitlements
TARP
787 billion emergency stimulus bill passed one year ago. We remember you voted on it before you read the bill.
Cash for Clunkers
Digital TV
TIFs
Eminent Domain for private businesses
Patriot Act
Brady Gun Control Bill
Global Warming/Climate Change/Carbon Credits legislation (McCain, Newt Gingrich & GWB all fell for the hoax that science proved climate changes were caused by humans)
Too Big To Fail bailouts of banks and car companies. (so lets make them bigger?)
Corporate Welfare
New World Order & North American Union (Bush/Clinton/Bush)
UN, WTO, IMF, WHO Codex Alimentarius
Institutional Dependency - For state & local governments, farmers, businesses and individuals
The Federal Reserve
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
Dept of Education
Dept of Energy
EPA
Dept of Homeland Security and Real ID
FDA and the food police
USDA and NAIS Animal ID v 2.0
The Military Industrial Complex (Eisenhower warned us about this one)
43 Trillion National Debt & unfunded liabilities
Quiz
Where in the U.S. Constitution do you find authorization for any of the above federal programs?
Where in the Republican party platform do you find support for any of the above federal programs?
Are Americans more or less free as a result?
Which of these programs had the unintended consequences of making the world more dangerous?
Is the American economy more capitalistic? more socialistic? or more communistic as a result?
Do Americans get to keep more of their wealth and income as a result?
Do Americans have more of their wealth forcibly taken from them (taxes) and given to others?
What benefit have Americans recieved for the huge investments in these programs?
Is there more opportunity in America or more hindrances to economic success?
Bipartisanship has created the unintended consequences of less wealth, less freedom, less opportunity and the world is less safe. The federal government has a track record of inefficiency and failure when intervening where it has no business. Unfunded federal mandates have stressed state and local governments while providing little to no benefit.
Will Americans be better off in 4 years with National health care? Or will we just have more government, higher taxes and a decline in service?
Please stand strong and vote NO! on more government intervention in healthcare. Your vote on the healthcare bill will determine our vote in November.
"Race to the Top" Missouri's Children are not for Sale!
While America's attention was focused on healthcare, another big government initiative, "Race To The Top" or (RTTT) has been quietly sweeping through our nation's education system. RTTT is a $4.3 billion dollar grant promoted to struggling schools. It could become a federal takeover of America's public education system.
Missouri Campaign for Liberty opposes the Federal RTTT program. Let no crisis go to waste appears to be the implementation strategy for the Obama administration once again. School boards across Missouri are struggling to balance their budgets. Along comes Uncle Sam with a new dangling carrot. Short term gain at the cost of long term federal government intervention.
This program continues the dangerous Teach for the Test Federal approach to education that started with No Child Left Behind. More testing does not lead to better achievement. The number one objective of teaching should be to teach students how to think and learn independently. The Federal model forces teachers to spend more classroom time prepping students for the federal tests, rather than real learning.
RTTT could mean a Washington DC bureaucrat will be choosing your child's textbooks in the future.
The funds will only be distributed to states that score the highest on a rubric of reforms (Google rubric RTTT). The grant is a one-time award in which Missouri will be required to participate in a consortium of states sharing common standards and testing. This will require all Missouri schools to realign their entire curriculum to common standards that are not even completed. Only 50% of the grant will flow down to the schools. What happens when there is no more money for the winning states to fully comply with the new standards and regulation? Just like the underfunded No Child Left Behind, the federal government is attempting to lure our local schools into dependency with short term grants and long term unfunded mandates.
RTTT calls for 'equitable distribution of effective teachers' (page 9 of the Executive Summary). This means that effective teachers can be moved at any time to lower achieving and/or high poverty schools as deemed necessary.
"I strongly urge each and every one of you to go to your local school district and demand to read the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that each district is required to sign in order to commit to following through with the reform if they were to be rewarded the grant money," said Kasey Brzycki, education advisor to the Missouri Sovereignty Project. "Do not let the promise of "free money" take the place of common sense. We are the "Show Me State" for a reason, and our citizens deserve to have the chance to review the grant before it is submitted to Washington. Missouri's children are not for sale!"
"Educating our children is solely the responsibility of parents and local school boards. The US Constitution does not call for a federal intervention in local schools. Therefore as clearly stated in the 10th amendment, the federal government has no jurisdiction to take over our school boards function," said Paul Hamby, Campaign for Liberty's Missouri Coordinator.
Texas already rejected RTTT. Missouri should stand for local control of our schools and say NO! to the federal RTTT program.
Posted by Paul Hamby on 02/14/10 Last updated 02/14/10
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause-it is seen.
The others unfold in succession-they are not seen: it is well for us if they areforeseen.
Between a good and a bad economist this constitutes the whole difference-the one takes account of the visible effect; the other takes account both of the effects which are seen and also of those which it is necessary to foresee. Now this difference is enormous, for it almost always happens that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse.
Hence it follows that the bad economist pursues a small present good, which will be followed by a great evil to come, while the true economist pursues a great good to come, at the risk of a small present evil.
written by by Frederic Bastiat (who also wrote the The Broken Window theory of economic development)
Posted by Paul Hamby on 01/15/10 Last updated 01/15/10
To: Missouri State Milk Board
cc: Jon Hagler Director, MDA
This message is a followup to testimony presented at the State Milk Board meeting Tuesday January 12, 2010.
The controversy over raw milk boils down to people's basic right to choose what they eat, from whom they can purchase their food and how it is produced.
There are compelling arguments for and against both types of milk. I believe raw milk and processed milk are both reasonably safe when produced, refrigerated and distributed in the proper way.
Commercial bottled milk carries some potential risks, with pasteurization often being cited as the culprit. However, if you have ever made tomato soup for your family by combining a can of soup and a can of milk and heating to just below boiling, then you pasteurized the milk. I think the other steps of processing are more dangerous. Homogenization changes the structure of fat cells. Pouring cold milk into a just made hot plastic jug changes the flavor by adding plastic particles. If toxins can leach into bottled water from a plastic bottle, then isn't it possible that milk can get toxins from a plastic milk jug? Knowing that risk, I still drink pasteurized milk from plastic jugs, but prefer milk from glass bottles.
I am in full support of pasteurization of milk produced in a traditional commercial setting. Milk shipped to a processing plant, handled and transferred by machines several times should be pasteurized.
Raw milk is reasonably safe when it comes from healthy animals, harvested in a clean sanitary way, quickly cooled and stored at 40 degrees or below. Thousands of Americans consume raw milk every day. Banning the production, consumption or distribution of raw milk will not stop the free market - it will only drive it underground. America experimented with this concept in the 1920's with Prohibition of Alcohol.
In the 1970's, the media went after butter because some scientists said it caused heart disease. America switched from butter to margarine. Respected doctors told their patients to switch. Today we know that real butter is healthier than margarine. The dairy industry suffered. Americans health declined based on bad science.
'Scientists' and activists have been sounding the alarm a lot recently. Just a couple of years ago the nation was terrified of mosquitoes. West Nile virus was predicted to kill many many Americans. The virus is real but the pandemic never materialized.
History is full of examples where government officials with good intentions created rules with unintended consequences. Communist governments who attempted to control their nation's food supplies usually ended with people starving.
Thomas Jefferson warned us; "If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
This issue is really about Liberty and personal choice. Liberty and Freedom come with Responsibility. Laws and government intervention take away all 3.
If the Missouri State Milk Board has a role to play in this issue, it should be that of educating. The Milk Board could publish a list of safe practices for those new to milk production. Become a trusted source of reasonable advice and what would otherwise turn into an underground movement will be better informed. These Safe Practices could be posted on the State Milk Board page on the MDA web site.
Safe Practices could include:
- udder preparation
- sanitation
- quick cooling of milk
- animal health and testing for communicable diseases
- Milk testing - CMT test and electronic cell count tests
- Lab testing of Milk
- The pasteurization issue can be presented this way: Consuming Raw Milk is a personal choice that comes with some risk. Please study the issue and be informed before producing or consuming raw milk. Pasteurization is simply heating milk to a specified temperature for a specific period of time to destroy potentially harmful bacteria.
Since Y2K, the Homestead and hobby farm movement has continued growing. Many of these folks along with Amish and Mennonite families believe raw milk is a healthier alternative. They will continue to produce milk for their families and neighbors.
I would ask you do 2 things now.
1. Publish Safe Practices for Missourians who want to produce raw milk.
2. Ask attorney General Koster to withdraw his lawsuit against the family who were delivering milk in Springfield.
In closing, I ask you to consider this question;
Who actually owns our bodies? The individual person or the government?
Paul Hamby
Maysville Missouri 64469
816 632 0602
Paul Hamby was raised on a 50 cow family dairy farm. His entire family consumed fresh raw cow milk every day from 1955 to 1979. His children were raised (and thrived) on fresh raw goat milk from the age of 6 months to 2 years. His animals were tested for communicable diseases. His milk was tested weekly. Hamby consumes both raw and pasteurized milk and prefers milk from glass containers.
Hamby owns a dairy equipment and supply company based in NW Missouri. He has designed and installed more than 100 commercial milking systems for cows, goats and sheep.
Recommended reading;
The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle Over Food Rights
Posted by Paul Hamby on 12/19/09 Last updated 12/19/09
Our founding fathers debated at length as to what type of government to create.
The pain and danger of Englands govenment were fresh on their minds, but so was the history of the world and the dangers of other types of Tyrannical governments.
So our wise leaders created a Republic - A limited government to operate by the Rule Of Law.
This 10 minute video explains the different types of governments very well and it explains the Danger of Democracy.
As you attend and speak to groups this coming year, please take a minute to point out that we are a Republic not a Democracy.
and that leads me to the burning question, Why Did George W invade Iraq to spread Democracy?
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