The Florida Wholesale Beer Association has helped to craft a law that will restrict how micro-brewries sell beer. The Florida State Senate just passed SB 1714, a bill which was crafted and supported by Florida Wholesale Beer Association.
The way the bill is constructed micro breweries can sell up to 2,000 kegs a year of their own brew in any size container. But if they sell more than 2,000 kegs a year, the bill prohibits them from selling their beer in sealed cans or bottles for home consumption directly from the microbrewery.
The bottom line here once they hit the 2,000 keg mark, the micro breweries would end up having to buy back their own beer from the distributors at a marked up price. Why would lawmakers do this?
The video here explains.
talk about bottom of the keg...........
ReplyDeleteNY Fed Joins War On Whistleblowers To Shield Goldman Sachs From Its Own Examiner
And this sort of egregious behaviour from a 'regulator.' They argue out of both sides of their mouths whether Goldman is a 'bank' or not, in order to get what they want for... Goldman.
The Fed is not a government agency, but a privately owned creature of the very Banks whom it is charged to regulate and restrain.
And as we have seen, over and over again, the Fed is not part of the solution, but has become very much a part of the problem in distorting the banking system in favour of a few powerful financial interests.
A Mangled Case of Justice on Wall Street
By Pam Martens
May 8, 2014
If this Federal Court allowed a regulator to twist a Federal whistleblower law inside out and upside down, it would be sending a chilling message to every other bank examiner in America: keep your mouth shut or you too can be fired with impunity.
The unfairness of the proceeding was heightened when just 20 days before the Judge issued her written decision on April 23, she convened a phone conference with both sides to make a shocking announcement: “it had just come to her attention that her husband…was representing Goldman Sachs in an advisory capacity” according to the telephone conference transcript.
Judge Abrams’ husband is Greg Andres, a partner at law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP who previously worked under Lanny Breuer in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. (Breuer announced his resignation one day after the PBS Frontline program reported that “when it came to Wall Street, there were no investigations going on. There were no subpoenas, no document reviews, no wiretaps.”) To date, not one key executive at any Wall Street bank that played a role in the financial collapse has been indicted.
Following that telephone conference, Segarra’s lawyer, Linda Stengle, filed a letter with the court asking for a more complete disclosure of the Judge’s husband’s relationship with Goldman Sachs.
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2014/05/ny-fed-joins-war-on-whistleblowers-to.html
Seriously?
DeleteCan it get more corrupt?
This country needs an enema, and the Potomac as our ass!