The United States Has Stockpiled a Grotesque Surplus of American Cheese

Slate ^ | May 2, 2016 | Jordan Weissmann

[C19fan]

The words “cheese surplus” should be inherently joyful—sort of like “birthday cake” or “birth of your first child.” And yet I am having trouble mustering much glee over the news that U.S. cheese inventories have reached a 30-year high of 1.2 billion pounds, because for the past year it seems we've mostly stockpiling a whole bunch of American.

[r_barton]

One part of the U.S. government tells us to eat more cheese, while another part of the U.S. government tells us to eat less cheese. Your stolen tax dollars at work.

[JimRed]

Reduce all monthly EBT allotments by $100 and make each recipient take 25 pounds of government cheese in its place! Problem solved!

[Jack Hammer]

Doeasn’t Slate have anything of value about which to write this week?

[OldNewYork]

Government cheese.

[Iron Munro]