Destroying America’s Family Farm: HR 2749. A Stealth Agribusiness Empowering Act

America is the truest example of what George Bernard Shaw meant when he said “Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.” Obama is upholding the tradition and then some.

In fact, in less than six months, he’s done the impossible. With congressional Democrats, he’s compiled a worse record than even his fiercest critics feared, worse than George Bush, straight across the board on both domestic and foreign policies that include:

– looting the nation’s wealth, wrecking the economy, and consigning growing millions to impoverishment  without jobs, homes, savings, social services, or futures;

– proposing greater Fed empowerment and global monetary control, disguised as financial reform;

– expanding unbridled militarism through continued foreign wars, occupations, and stepped up aggression on new fronts with the largest defense budget in history – greater than the rest of the world combined at a time America has no enemies;

– its first coup d’etat in Honduras against its democratically elected president, an attempted regime change in Iran, and perhaps others ahead against independent leaders called national security threats while continuing to support the world’s most ruthless and corrupt tyrants;

– presiding over a bogus democracy under a homeland police state apparatus;

– continuing the worst of the Bush administration’s torture policies and practice of lawlessness;

– targeting whistleblowers, dissenters, Muslims, and environmental and animal rights activists called terrorists;

– illegally spying on Americans as aggressively as under George Bush;

– destroying decades of hard won labor rights;

– eroding Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other New Deal and Great Society social gains;

– trying to control the media more aggressively than Richard Nixon, according to veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas;

– refusing help for budget-stricken states like California; forcing them to impose austerity by gutting welfare programs, education, health care for the poor, and other vital services at a time they’re most needed; to be followed by bailout-rich banks, real estate developers, and other profiteers using “shock doctrine” tactics to buy state and other troubled assets on the cheap;

– continuing to commodify education, end government responsibility for it, and make it another business profit center;

– proposing health care reform that will tax more, provide less, place profits above human need, disdain vital change, and leave a broken system in place;

– readying Americans for dangerous, mandatory vaccinations that jeopardize human health, well-being, and may even cause death;

– the (June 26) House-passed American Clean Energy and Security Act to let corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits by charging consumers more for energy and fuel, create a new bubble through carbon trading derivatives speculation, yet do nothing to address environmental issues;

– trying to revive the Real ID Act of 2005 with S. 1261: Pass ID Act, introduced on June 15 and referred to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; if enacted, it will erode personal freedoms by requiring all US citizens and legal residents to have a national identity card that will be needed to open a bank account, board an airplane, be able to vote, or conduct virtually all types of essential business; if embedded with an RFID chip, universal monitoring will be possible everywhere, all the time; and

— the proposed HR 2749: Food Safety Enhancement Act (FSEA) of 2009 discussed below.

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