Why Does the Federal Government Have 1.4 Billion Pounds of American Cheese Stockpiled?

FEE ^ | March 5, 2019 | FEE

[Doogle]

Rats

[Billthedrill]

If we locate entire tankers full of tomato sauce and boxcars full of pepperoni we’ll know that Big Pizza is about to make its move.

[al_c]

[HamiltonJay]

If you are eating a “breakfast” burrito, you really can’t blame anyone but yourself for its contents, whether it be from McD’s or a Taqueria

[JudgemAll]

If you all wanted to know why dairy consumption is down and milk is so expensive...

Bullet hoarding is real too, with the Us government burning in drums millions of unused bullets every year.

It reminds me of an old movie called, No need for Money, as a capitalist retort to Marx saying money was bad. In there the capitalist raises money fraudulently in a false claim of finding oil in France, using the money to build a refinery and processing Russian oil arriving in waggons. Then one of the engineers finally discovers oil but the dude tels him to tell no one lest the price of oil would go down too much...

[Carriage Hill]

What’s the half-life of processed cheese? Yuk.

[Flag_This]

To replace the gold standard.

[litehaus]

Classic, prize winning one !! Congrats !

[RedMonqey]

Because the Russkies have 1.5 Billion!



"We cannot allow a Processed Cheese Gap”

[lee martell]

The logical solution is to reduce the Milk Subsidies.
The dairy farmers won’t like it, but better to only produce what is needed in today’s market. These subsidies only maintain an artificial, false status of what’s normal.
All that cheese needs refrigerating. The refrigerators need to be constantly run by electricity. The electricity is an ongoing expense, also paid by taxpayers, most likely.

It’s time for this long standing, ever-expanding House of Cards to be dismantled or allowed to fall down.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Farm Welfare Queens

[neverevergiveup]

This was all extracted from the moon. Those aren’t all craters.

[JudgemAll]

Who needs a strategic oil reserve, there is enough cheese to run a few electricity producing incinerators there for a while.

[BitWielder1]

Subsidies = People forced to pay for something they themselves don't use.

[rellimpank]

—I suspect that would be the response of most of young people-—sadly-—

[Mariner]

but...but...but...why Processed American Cheese?

Why not REAL cheese?

[cotton]

The us government has never, ever, forced me to eat cheese nor any other commodity! Taxes, yes, unisex bathrooms, yes but no cheese. I have given away government cheese with appropriate recipes for it's use, but no one was forced to eat it, or even to take it home. We had a barrel for any unwanted cheese, and others could take from the barrel if they wanted. Community action program and “commodities” program 1980’s.

[Reily]

Thanks to sugar subsidies we probably have Egyptian pyramid blocks of sugar piled up somewhere!

[lee martell]

I have often wondered about that.
Looks like you struck a nerve.

[Buckeye McFrog]

but do you really want farmers to go out of business because of a bad harvest? It's hard enough just to convince people that farming is a worthwhile thing to do, what happens when nobody is interested anymore in farming?

Congratulations! You have just validated the point that capitalism is a fatally flawed system that cannot sustain itself. You can pick-up your award over at DU. /sarc