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Cleaver in the news. KCMO. ALR. Just what has Representative Emanuel Cleaver done
for Kansas City? Ever? The answer is simple, not much.  His policies as mayor and congress representative have perpetuated poverty and economic collapse in Kansas City. Does he
help the Black community? Not unless the unchecked gang wars and record African-American unemployment numbers are a measurement
for success!
Has his policies in congress or the
city created great education opportunities for our youth? Not unless failed schools, poor annual progress, and horrific drop
out rates are a measurement of success. His financial
support comes from political action committees and special interest groups from outside Kansas City. He does not represent
Kansas City and Independence, he is not even representing them! Often times his aids have to tell him what to vote on and
how. He has not supported any legislation that represents Missouri, Kansas City, or Independence. He supports Pelosi, Franks,
the SIEU and ACORN, from which, he receives direct and indirect political and foundation donations. He votes against Second
Amendment bills, supports increased taxes, federal payment for abortion, and higher energy taxes on the poor and rich alike.
He supports socialized health reform which cuts benefits for the poor, the elderly, and limits coverage on persons with existing
conditions. Cleaver is good at living a life of
"do what I say, not what I do." He claims faith in one voice and supports abortion in another. He claims to be liberal
which is supported by his Americans for Democratic Actions rating, but does nothing to stem the housing, jobs, and schools
African Americans and other minorities depend on. He claims to represent the poor and his district, yet state, cities, and
voters have to pay more and more taxes for energy, home mortgages, food, housing, and health coverage reductions. Breast cancer
and other medical coverages are being dropped by state and federal benefits. Rationing is not a future issue, it is now!
Cleaver's vote on health reform will result
in further taxes beginning January 1, 2010. No one will receive any benefits until 2013! Seniors will loose benefits and SSA
benefits are to be reduced. Cleaver voted for:
Increasing the National Public Debt Limit
HR 4314 Estate Tax Law Amendments and Reinstatement of PAYGO
HR 4154 Energy Law Amendments (Cap and Trade)
HR 2454 Trade-in Vouchers for Fuel Efficient Cars
HR 2751 Auto Industry Financing HR 7321 Health Care and Insurance Law Amendments
HR 3962
Cleaver voted against: Prohibiting Federal Assistance to ACORN
HR 3221 Prohibiting Federally Funded Abortion Services
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Turk on the Economy
The governmental policies that work to create jobs in tough economic times are clear. Our  economic policies need to be based on freeing the American people as consumers and businesspeople to fix our recession and
create jobs. We only have to look to our 20th century history to find what does (and doesn't) work. Every time
our federal government significantly reduced our taxes the economy took off – Mellon 1920's, Kennedy 1960's,
Reagan 1980's, Bush 2000's. When
the government sucked up our resources to centrally run the economy they turned a recession into the Great Depression –
Hoover/Roosevelt 1930's. Our economy did not fully recover from that administration's disastrous picking of winners
and losers in the marketplace until President Truman instituted more favorable policies post World War II. Our choice is simple: - Tax cuts both personal and business produce
the environment that produces new jobs, or
- More government spending soaking up our personal and business resources creates the environment
for stagnation in job creation.
Congress
adopted the policy that does not and is not working producing runaway unemployment and fear in the American people.
I propose we return to proven policies of tax cuts
to give the American people the confidence and ability to bring our economy back and give our fellow citizens the jobs they
need.
Missouri Hearing Milks Farmers
By
Paul Hamby
The following message is a follow-up to testimony presented at the State Milk
Board meeting Tuesday January 12, 2010 by Paul Hamby. 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. Paul Hamby asked the state board to Publish
Safe Practices for Missourians who want to produce raw milk and to ask attorney General Koster to withdraw his lawsuit against
the family who were delivering milk in Springfield. 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.
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