Public Comment Period to Protect the Human Right to Food Ends April 2, 2019
Public Comment Period Ends April 2nd
I hope you will submit a public comment to the US Department of Agriculture, which has currently been taken over by heartless bastards. A group called Progress Ohio has a great page where you can learn how SNAP is threatened and super template you can use at this link. Time runs out April 2nd. Please share, even outside of Ohio.
Here’s My Comment — Please feel free to use any and all of my language.
The American ideal laid out in the Preamble of the US Constitution is based on core American values of empathy, responsibility, both personal and social, and the strength to govern with those values. This rule makes a mockery of the American ideal.
A government of, by, and for people would not propose such a rule. This rule disregards the American people’s basic human right to life, liberty, and security of person, as well as other human rights dealing with food. Our great-grandparents fought a civil war to defend government of, by, and for people. After WWII our parents and grandparents enshrined the American ideal in the charter of the United Nations and its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This rule disregards our core American values that makes a union possible. This rule confirms a recent UN Special Rapporteur’s report that this country lacks the political will to care for its people, which continues to dismantle domestic tranquility. This rule is just one of many that does not respect, protect, or promote the general welfare of this nation; and makes one believe the god described on our currency must be some sort of terrible monster.
A caring body politic would not condone such a rule. This rule shreds America’s pledge to secure the blessings of liberty, because a fearful and needful man, woman, or child is not free, or fully alive. Just this morning at my weekly Rotary meeting, we heard a report from representatives of local caring society organizations that the current rules — which are barbaric — continue to strain our local communities resources to help our fellow citizens, who have a right to expect such help from the words of our freedom charters.
We should be expanding SNAP and making it easier and more dignified for our fellow citizens to get the food and shelter so many of our neighbors so separately need. Whoever thought this up should have been loved more as a child and nurtured more through school, because they have turned out to be human rights abusers at best and potential mass murderers in a suit at worst.
We must reject a selling body politic, stand up for human rights, and protect and promote government of, by, and for the people. Freedom from want and fear are the strategic reasons we need more empathy and social responsibility in government.
Caring citizens are the solution,
Chuck Watts
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“The peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,” which are the strategic reasons the world needs more empathy.
