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More money in politics pays off richly in the farm bill so far. Think about it when you buy your next candy bar then dieting might have a whole new appeal besides getting your health and figure in better shape.

The next amendment money may decide is yet another Monsanto protection amendment.

Is Round Up a poison in your opinion? Should labels be required for foods that are genetically redesigned for animals and humans and other uses in order to be treated directly, often twice, with Round-Up herbicide and that have pesticides or have other changes artificially designed into the DNA? More states are saying they want labels and Monsanto wants a national amendment to not allow state choice. This link shows what biotech companies were willing to pay in one state to fight labels: (http://www.forbes.com/sites/amywestervelt/2012/08/22/monsanto-dupont-spending-millions-to-oppose-californias-gmo-labeling-law/) Think what biotech companies must be paying to shape national law.

Should local citizens within states be allowed to decide what is acceptable if the national standard does not live up to the state standards for health and consumer's informed choice?.

Excerpts from the politico link in the heading title:

The amendment Wednesday sought to end these purchases and roll back the price-support level from 18.75 cents per pound to 18 cents. “This amendment would address the only program in the farm bill that hasn’t been reformed, the sugar program,” said Sen Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.). “What we have now is a sweet deal for sugar growers and a bad deal for consumers.”

NEXT, LOOK FOR MONSANTO TO GET PAID OFF BIG BY GETTING RID OF STATE RIGHTS:

EXCERPT:

Next on the Senate agenda Thursday morning will be a vote on whether to allow states like Vermont to pursue new labeling rules for food with genetically modified ingredients. And the Agriculture Committee leadership was hopeful of pulling together a series of crop insurance reform votes before leaving for the Memorial Day recess.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/sugar-interests-win-senate-vote-91781.html#ixzz2U6CdvBou

Excerpt:

The full Senate is expected to debate the bill on the floor next month. Earlier on Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) pledged to “vote for the motion to proceed so we can get on the bill and see if it we’re able to pass a bill that actually moves the ball in the right direction.”

There are many important outcomes from what is included in the farm bill. The American public should never assume because it is called the "Farm" Bill it is only of interest to farmers. This bill involves what is allowed to get literally into our gut and whether or not some people will be able to afford to eat each day and much more. Please read up on this...you can start here...but please make that is just the start and read on.

This is an interesting article for many reasons.

1. There are two different versions.

    A. There is a detailed version.

    B. Then there is also a "click for summary [here]" to be directed to the

         quick easy read version.

    C.There are different experts rather than one in the full version.

    D. Last but not least many comments are good reads and one points

        out the plan would socialize risky debt but allow

        banks to profit with a capitalistic style loaning to make new debt.

Excerpt from the short easy to read site:

"To battle this problem, the ECB could take a page from Britain, which has used a "funding for lending" scheme to improve the flow of credit to businesses. In it, banks that raise lending to small and medium-size enterprises can go to the Bank of England and swap their relatively risky assets for ultra-safe government bonds. Those in turned can be used as collateral to obtain cheap bank financing. When all is said and done banks should be healthier and the flow of credit to firms should resume."

Mississippi Gov.Bryant fights to keep the vote on Medicare extension from happening and leaves the whole program in the state unavailable soon unless there is a special session called. He says he will rule over medicare needs by executive order if need be. Other states are also trying creative, maybe even childish means to reject Obama care.

Here is an issue both parties all too often seem to have no problem about standing together to achieve. How much and how to spy on citizens? In fairness this article seems to indicate in this current case this involves traditional court ordered wiretapping. Saudi Arabia has threatened to cut off Skype if they don't give them the codes to allow ease dropping that America and some other selected countries possess.

How and when to spy on individuals is a topic every citizen might want to pay attention to because it is our privacy and it is the message we send to the world on how to spy. The opportunity for abuse or misuse of spying technology matters in a democracy and those companies discussed that would be the major players in making all this happen are also major financial donors into the political process. 

We need to follow closely who these reforms would help the most and if that tax reform help is really needed.

More and more I see some things need to go global more than multinational corporations do. Health care needs to be one of these things. Training enough doctors and nurses for at least basic care at affordable prices needs to be one thing to go global because migrant and immigrant workers are a global movement and people live everywhere back and forth today. All nations need a basic affordable national (global even) affordable insurance option that any one can afford to keep healthier. This should become a global goal because it is a debate the world over.

Having debates over whether or not some should go without care or go broke is the craziest idea I can think of. Obviously these so called leaders are blind to the question much less the answers. This is a global question and needs a global answer. How do we go about training enough medical professionals to deliver good AFFORDABLE basic care to the massive global population? The second question is obviously if we aren't going to deal with the first question than who gets to go sick, drop dead and go broke? Punishing people because they became ill? Really? Who are we anyway? We must have thrown Love, Hope, Charity and the good part of any religious values out with the trash by mistake and we need to go retrieve them.

No one should have to choose between going around sick, spreading illness and dying or going broke? Many of these workers like Americans are in low income and health stressful jobs and the American health care insurance and care will bankrupt even those with group insurance and good paying jobs. That is just wrong for something we not so long ago we traded chickens and eggs to get.. Obama care didn’t fix that and the GOP doesn’t even pretend to want to try. It is wrong for Americans, much less immigrants or illegals and if it weren't we wouldn't have to have this debate because anyone could afford to go to doctors. (This is the opinion of one coffee party person everyone has his or her own opinion I'm sure.)

Excerpt:

The provision, in essence, said immigrants seeking citizenship must provide their own health care — and if any government entity provides them with services, they would be ineligible for permanent citizenship. The language was aimed at assuaging Republican concerns that the immigration bill would plunge the nation further into debt.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/house-immigration-talks-hang-on-health-care-91709.html#ixzz2U0qTm2m2

Hey Coffee Party News readers, here's an online talk you might want to tune into.

Where is the demand by congress for an investigation into how western companies that allowed this to happen and why we allow charters to those that did? Four died at Benghazi and they can't say enough about that and terrorism. The IRS investigated GOP non-profits that are run to promote political campaigns and lobby officials they then get elected through these corporate welfare organizations made tax-free by calling them social welfare non-profits. 

The towers tumbled and the congress starts a 10 and counting war on terrorism using it as an excuse to invade the privacy of all and throw the rule of law and due process out the window and start another war. Manning is looking at being locked up for life for putting soldiers at risk for leaking the truth. They planned to lock up Aaron Swartz for 35 years for downloading too much and breaking the terms of use rules. They are treating cybercrimes hackers that cause denial of service stoppages with 10 to 30 years in prison… but no big deal here with over 1100 dead not including the many others dead in other such situations…. Let’s just have a have a deal. Something is very wrong with this picture.

There have been industrial fires, explosions and now this collapse that together have killed nearly the same number and perhaps more as the towers explosions. Those in Benghazi new the risk.... They had military and guarded homes. Is this deliberate neglect for greed not just as much terrorism as that? Should it not merit far more response than a friendly or unfriendly debate on rising wages a little and forcing underpaid business owners and workers to do more without enabling funds to do this? Who is held accountable for these industrial deaths…No one saw life in jail for the BP spill and 11 killed and major company leaders or officials in developed countries that allow these businesses to operate seem to face no accountability equal to their terrorism.  I’m not speaking of the Benghazi owners here either. I think we all know who holds the pockets strings and lifelines in the world.

We all love much of what science and discovery has done or revealed to date for us but not all of us share that pride in every situation. What do you think of cloning new life and it appears that includes human life now?

Here's the up side up of inclusive style immigration reform.

This is a topic worth thinking about. I don't remember the part about individual rates lowered to 25%, but I do remeber hearing that is a push from and for the corporate side that would tempt them to stop off shoring their money.

I'm not sure why we have allowed them to offshore their profits untaxed and hold American business charters or haven't auctioned off their assets in the USA for such a practice. Maybe we should also put that on the table.