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Folks in Texas know a lot more about marijuana wars and problems on the border than the politicians in Washington. Now, thanks to overzealous state legislatures, seasonal workers are not returning to pick our food crops, and many farmers will pay the price of high spoilage. This will raise the price of the food they do harvest. Hopefully someone in Washington, whether newly elected or otherwise, will come to their senses and devise a plan to deal with marijuana wars and America’s need for legal seasonal workers to pick our food crops soon. We already import a lot of food from Mexico. If we keep the seasonal workers out, we will be importing more and farmers will plant less. Is this what we want? Do we want to import our food just so we can keep people out of our country?
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Farmers scrambling to find harvest labor
Stacy Finz : Business Report : The Chronicle with Bloomberg- excerpt
“…Farmers across California are experiencing the same problem: Seasonal workers who have been coming for decades to help with the harvest, planting and pruning have dropped off in recent years. With immigration crackdowns, an aging Mexican population, drug wars at the border and a weakened job market in the United States, the flow of migrants has stopped and may actually have reversed, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research firm that has been studying the trend…
women in Mexico on average were having seven babies, a number that dipped to 2.4 children in 2000. “There are fewer reasons for people to leave Mexico, since in the last few years the economy there has done reasonably well and it’s harder and more expensive to get into the U.S.”…
Get ready to pay a lot more for produce, thanks to the success of the anti-labor and anti-immigrant actions that have made it increasingly more difficult for farmers to use the cheap seasonal labor that once poured across our borders to help during harvest season. Now we will pay at the supermarket for their efforts, and farmers will continue to scale back production.
California High Speed Rail Slammed In New Government Report, Defunding Project Recommended
Let’s keep teachers at work instead of adding to our debt load. How many teachers can we hire for 2.6 billion dollars? How many medical students can we educate for that amount? California needs to get its priorities straight.
Building a second train system with borrowed capital and no funding to maintain and operate it is particularly dumb when we already have trains that connect SF to LA that are more expensive than a plane trip. The speed is not the problem. The costs of running AMTRAK far exceeds the costs of flying and the bullet train is hardly going to costs less.
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Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich won’t soon be forgotten
By Joy Freeman-Coulbary : washingtonpost.com – excerpt
n 2007, Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat, and Ron Paul, a Republican, were kindred spirits: Demure in size, but mighty in spirit, the congressmen were steadfast in their outsized battle to change American foreign policy as they sought the presidency.
“As the Democratic [presidential] nominee I’d consider Ron Paul as my running mate,” Kucinich said without hesitation during a 2007 interview with Free Minds TV. “He and I agree tremendously on international policy. You might see a vote being 235 to 2 in Congress; you’ll know who the two are: Kucinich and Paul.”
Though successful in forging a friendly and admirable bipartisan bridge on issues of war and largely peace, neither was successful in their 2008 presidential bids. And now both men, who prided themselves on political integrity and purity, grass-roots base and a lack of corporate and lobbyist affiliations have been moved off the political stage, perhaps for good. Brimming with political will and spirit, but short on money, the two doves have flown into the proverbial political coop.
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Corrupt Canadian Banking System.mp4
Victoria Grant Explains the Canadian Banking system, how is is corrupt and suggest ways to fix it. There are multiple online links to this story and video links. Here are a few that chronicle the YouTube hit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axS-QdUkMqk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YaDD3Dx0FA&feature=watch_response
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We are pleased to see that some in Washington are finally supporting the wishes of their constituents with regard to medical marijuana. We hope that our senators follow Pelosi’s lead and press administration for a pullback of federal raids.
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Pelosi condemns Obama administration for Calif. medical marijuana crackdowns
SFGate – Pelosi blasts crackdown
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House Minority Leader Pelosi Joins Democrats in Condemning Federal Medical Marijuana Attacks
PRESS RELEASE
Americans for Safe Access For Immediate Release: – May 3, 2012
House Minority Leader Pelosi Joins Democrats in Condemning Federal Medical Marijuana Attacks
Momentum builds as more Democratic leadership stand up to threats & intimidation//from Obama administration
San Francisco, CA* — U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) issued a statement yesterday condemning the escalated attacks on state-compliant medical marijuana businesses in her state. Responding to recent federal government actions threatening safe access to medical marijuana, Pelosi said she has “long supported” and will “continue to strongly support” efforts to “advocate federal policies that recognize the scientific evidence and clinical research demonstrating the medical benefits of medicinal marijuana, that respects the wishes of the states in providing relief to ill individuals, and that prevents the federal government from acting to harm the safe access of medicinal marijuana provided under state law.”
