Posted on 08/09/2005 10:24:44 AM PDT by Hi Heels
> U.S. Appears Headed for a Peanut Surplus
Indeed. We have one former presidential "goober" from Georgia who qualifies as surplus... available to any socialist dictatorship seeking syncophantic worldview.
For some reason that quote from Dr. Strangelove comes to mind upon reading the title. I can't remember it.
LOL! You don't even have the intellect to utilize punctuation in your replies.
...Which brings a question to mind...
Does anyone else here, besides me that is, eat peanuts without shelling them?
And no...I do not mean showering their position with mortar fire in order to make peanut butter. I mean eating them in the shell. That's the way I like 'em. By the bag full.
There is. Around my waist. It ain't "all that" if you know what I mean.
When the government reduces the support price.
Not before.
Oh American, if they only come boiled, you can have my 200lbs too. LOL
Now honey roasted, let's talk.
Is Jimmy Carruh mouthing off again?
How you come up with that lamebrain idea is beyond me - but then your twisted logic is beyond me as well.
But is has become abundantly clear that you wish to see the small family farm go the way of the buggy whip in favor of corporate conglomerate farming. They are the ones who benefit from subsidies, not small farms and definitely not the consumers.
So in addition to wasteful, inefficient sue of taxpayer dollars, and larger government, we can add corporate welfare to the list of your support regarding said government. SHEESH................
When the government reduces the support price.
Not before.
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I know....I was kidding around. I don't really expect prices to ever come down. It's sort of like the notion of a "temporary" tax. There is no such thing. Once you have a tax, it almost never goes away. Once a price goes up, it rarely comes down, and if it does, it's only temporary. Usually, when it goes up again, it goes beyond the original price...to offset the losses from the temporary price reduction.
If you can't understand that a food surplus is better than a food shortage, then any type of logic is beyond you.
But is has become abundantly clear that you wish to see the small family farm go the way of the buggy whip in favor of corporate conglomerate farming. They are the ones who benefit from subsidies, not small farms and definitely not the consumers.
So in addition to wasteful, inefficient sue of taxpayer dollars, and larger government, we can add corporate welfare to the list of your support regarding said government.
Ooooooooooooo.... "corporate welfare"..... !!!
Where'd ya get those talking points, Gabz???
Ralph Nader??? Jesse Jackson??? Molly Ivins??? Maxine Waters??? Hillary Klinton???
Or did that pathetic rambling actually germinate in your own little pea-brain???
Corporate farming has gone global, ninny.
It's become more profitable to sell U.S. landholdings to developers and import food from property acquired in Latin America for a fraction of domestic land prices.
You're a fraud, Gabz.
Spare us your disingenuous concern for family farmers.
They're actually the target of your backstabbing idiocy.
True, patriotic conservatives should be embarrassed by your sniveling drivel.
By resorting to personal insults you show you have lost the argument..........but I will make a comment.
NOWHERE did I say any time that a surplus is not better than a shortage - that is your twisting of what I said, not my words.
And I'll let my family farmer friends know that I am backstabbing them, they will be happy to know that I have been a fraud to them all these years. In fact I think I will print this thread and bring it with me to our meeting this eveing.....we are always looking for a good laugh, and your posts will more than provide it.......thanks.
good day.
Most would rather be free to make their own planting decisions and rely on their productivity to compete in a free global market.
The government's support prices are designed to protect the most inefficient among them. And whenever there is a vote, the farmer who plants 2000 A of corn has only one vote, no more than the farmer who plants 20 A.
It's a shame..schemes like these are supposed to benefit the farmer, but anyone I ever heard about (and a couple I've talked to personally) all tell me they see little if anything from these "supports." In Pennsylvania, there is a milk marketing board which sets an artificially high minimum price for milk; yet the dairy farmers receive little of that money. Where does it go? I think I know -- politicians' pockets.
Little by little the family farm is disappearing...when it's gone completely, we will be stuck with corporations which will charge ridiculously high prices for their products. And everything will be genetically altered or grown with pesticides and chemicals -- you'll find few, if any, organic farmers. Not only that, but a tradition -- a way of life -- will be lost forever.
This is a conservative forum, Gabz.
You may think that maintaining a politically incorrect "puff list" defines you as "conservative",
but when you blow all that smoke out your @$$,
all that does is highlight the target for my Made In USA pitchfork.
There are only 2 factions that spout that marxist manure about "corporate welfare", Gabz:
As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter which faction applies to you.
You have earned every jab of my conservative pitchfork that I can muster.
And I'll let my family farmer friends know that I am backstabbing them, they will be happy to know that I have been a fraud to them all these years.
If they're truly family, I'm sure that they're already aware that you're a fraud. They're simply keeping peace in the family by not arguing with you.
"You can pick your friends but not your relatives."
HOW IS OUR JELLY SUPPLY? Full jar of peanut butter and a near empty jar of blackberry jam is a major disaster in our home.
I haven't read all the replies yet, but I, for one, don't think it should involve the government at all.
It should be a private business (peanut farming), and the prices should be subject to a free market system.
The government should not even be involved.
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