HOW TO DESTROY THE U.S. ECONOMY

You've heard me rant about the morons running our government agencies before, but I've just come across more incredible examples of what highly paid government employees with no REAL work to do come up with to justify their paychecks. Thanks again John for the heads up.

Let's start with one of my favorites, the EPA. Late in 2010, they declared dust from farm operations to be a pollutant, and proposed hundreds of pages of rules and regulations forcing farmers to control dust. Are you sitting down? Modifications to all farm equipment to add water tanks and spray bars. Any site of five or more acres of "disturbed" land would be required to have a trained "dust control coordinator" on site. Farmers would be required to clean all mud/dust off equipment tires before entering a public road, either by washing (requiring a water truck and pressure washer), or installing a stone or blacktop pad at the entrance/exit of every field sufficiently long enough to clear all mud from tires.

Talk about economic impact, remember me talking about a $10 loaf of bread? Let these idiots have their way and it'll be $20. Farmers barely scrape by as it is, can you imagine how much this crap would add to their costs? Whose pocket is that going to come out of? YOURS every time you go to the grocery store. If implemented nationwide, this would definitely put 95% of family farmers out of business immediately, and who would buy up those farms? The huge agribusiness conglomerates, giving them total control over prices. Can you say "Exxon Mobile"? Better stock up on Vaseline.

Now, the EPA, through the USDA, (Dept. of Agriculture) has declared storm water runoff from stored feed hay to also be a pollutant, which must be controlled with dikes and retention ponds.Which of course would require a farmer to hire an excavator to build.  Stored hay?????

The next assault on your ability to feed your family came from the Dept. of Transportation. They recently proposed requiring every operator of farm machinery to obtain a CDL license. Yeah, that really makes a lot of sense, driving a tractor or combine from one field to another is a lot like driving an over the road tractor trailer on today's overcapacity highways. Cost? How about $5 grand for a trucking school?

These are just a few of the hundreds and hundreds of government regulations that are chocking the he** out of the American economy. Government overall is WAY out of control. Yes, we do need some regulation, but regulation with common sense applied.

The last chance to fix America is this next election. Don't forget to do your part, or you will have no one to blame but yourself.

Dumb Farmer