Posted on 10/12/2016 10:24:07 AM PDT by MichCapCon
More cherry pie is the solution to many of life’s problems. Chocolate covered cherries is the solution to every problem.
Gee! That is like Roosevelt having cattle slaughtered during the Great Depression to raise prices. It didn’t.
"The Cherry Industry Administrative Board is given the power by Congress and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to control the prices of tart cherries (though not sweet cherries)."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Refardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific powers to regulate either INTRAstate commerce or agricultural production. This is evidenced by the excerpts below.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
But what’s arguably worse then the feds exercising powers that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to them is this. The Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress (sarc), to clarify that all federal legislative / regulatory powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in faceless, non-elected bureaucrats such as those running the EPA, IRS, FAA, EEOC, DOL, CRC and USDA as examples.
So Congress has a constitutional “monopoly” on federal legislative powers whether it want it or not. But by unconstitutionally front-ending itself with non-elected bureaucrats who are effectively running the country, Congress is wrongly protecting federal legislative powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 mentioned above.
In other words, corrupt lawmakers are wrongly letting constitutionally unauthorized federal officials get away with stealing and exercising legislative powers, a lot of these powers actually 10A-protected state powers which the feds have stolen from the states, so that federal bureaucrats can do Congress’s unconstitutional and unpopular legislative work for it.
By allowing this to happen, lawmakers are able to keep their voting records clean so that they can fool low-information patriots, patriots who don’t understand the fed’s constitutionally limited powers, into reelecting them imo.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to not only support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and unconstitutional interference in state affairs as evidenced by federal interference in INTRAstate agriculture and commerce.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
Eat more pies? Heck, I love to eat both tart and sweet cherries fresh off the trees (or out of the bag), uncooked.
Eat more pies? Heck, I love to eat both tart and sweet cherries fresh off the trees (or out of the bag), uncooked.
After reviewing the lyrics in my mind it's easy to see how one could make the mistake.
At one point, the cranberry market was in the same boat. Very few people ate cranberries outside of Thanksgiving or Christmas. Then, someone got the idea to market cranberry juices, put dried cranberries in cereals, etc. The cranberry glut had a place to go.
The same can be done with tart cherries.
Which does raise a question: Since they could donate the cherries if the cherries were processed first, could they sell cherry products without it counting against their quota?
I never see fresh Michigan sweet cherries in the grocery store down here in southern Michigan. To keep the prices high, limit the supply and export them? I was wondering what happened to the peaches this year. Very limited in the store and no peach ice cream, which I was really looking forward to - the spring and summer were gorgeous, so what’s up with that? Too many peaches, so they didn’t get picked to keep the prices up? Not enough migrant labor to pick the fruit cuz now they don’t have to do that work any more???
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