Posted on 08/09/2005 10:24:44 AM PDT by Hi Heels
Great, bring down the price of peanut butter.
It won't...gov't subsidies detach the peanuts cost from your peanut butter.
"There's always somebody who wants to take a shot at the peanut program,"
The poor, embattled peanut industry. I didn't realize things had gotten so bad. These people are victims.
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When will I see the price of my favorite peanut butter come down? :)
When the price of the sugar put into it also goes down (you might want to look at the price supports on domestic sugar production).
Does this mean the consumer prices will fall?
If this means less money in the profit column for the Carter peanut farm, I'm all for it.
Thanks to your peanut oil car the rest of us will have to certify peanut free to sell our cars lest the peanut allergy folks sue.
If they'll deliver free I'll take 200 lbs boiled.
MMMMMM, my favorite.
Here's a use invented by You Dirty Rats -- use peanut oil to power Jane Fonda's loozer antiwar bus tour. She can take Jimmy Carter with her.
Better yet, Uncle Sam should stop providing a price guarantee for commodities. Let the market work.
Utterly insane.......the excess tonnage is going to rot in those warehouses, and the price of peanuts and peanut butter particularly continues to rise in the supermarket..........
Nope, this one falls squarely on Bush. From the article:
Costly commodity programs tend to be singled out in Congress, but Chambliss said the 2002 Farm Bill, which created the new peanut program, is successful and the peanut program has been a bargain most years.
Which is exactly what prompted the airlines to action.
That is the best solution.......and on all of them.
I'm calling the Senate right now:
"Senator Chambliss, as a small-government Republican, do you think you can end all government subsidies and anti-free-market support of commodities, beginning with peanuts? Hello? Hello?"
Seems that on some issues, our boys are as bad as theirs. Oh well -- we get shelled again. That's politics!
Then why is peanut oil do damn expensive?
I think you are right on there - I've seen people get positively FREAKY about peanuts being in some cookies, and there not being any warnings posted...
You are preaching to the choir, FRiend, preaching to the choir.
Interesting note on these crop subsidies...the tobacco subsidy is currently being phased out.....primarily due to the lobbying efforts of Philip Morris looking for lower prices on leaf. I've read numerous stories of tobacco farmers jumping on the buyout an immediately switching crop to thumb their nose at PM.
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When I was in elementary school in the 50-60s, the school snacks and cafeteria ran on government surplus. We had a snack of salted peanuts mixed with raisins given to us in little paper cups. I loved it!
One year there was a turkey surplus and the cooks made a whole Thanksgiving style lunch about every week until they used up the turkeys.
Another dish I loved was buttered corn bread served with pitchers of honey on the cafeteria tables. No wonder I was a fat kid!
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