Posted on 02/25/2007 3:13:21 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Join the club...I loose mine to Reynosa Mexico in April...
Mexican chocolate? You have got to be kidding...
Coca Cola is made in Mexico....I will hand it to the people south of the border.....Chocolate was made first by the Incas or Mayans or whatever was down there a couple of hundred years ago....before the European Spanish killed them all...
Well, my mother and my ex are still valiantly doing their best to keep all the Hershey chocolate people all over the world working overtime.
They're just going to New Orleans. You know, to keep it a "chocolate city"!!!!!
> The US sugar policy is borderline criminal.
The one amendment that gets passed with every piece of legislation is the law of unintended consequences.
Unintended consequences of Big Government intrusion on the Free Market BUMP.
I have not finished the article, but I am not holding my breath to find the other side of the coin,
“We are about to lose our high-paid jobs thanks to the negotiations of the union,” he said. “Reese (nonunion) workers are getting union-scaled wages [and are also about to lose their jobs for the same reason.]”
Isn't it amazing what selective amnesia can do to the outraged unemployed?
Of course, under the "me first" union philosophy, they have also lost sight of the reality that they are losing their jobs in part because...
"...Taylor points a finger at the “bizarre and antiquated” U.S. sugar subsidy, which inflates the price of sugar to “two or three times the price on the world market.”
... of subsidies to another segment of the presumable free [and probably unionized] market...
Yea, the unintended consequence is that all of our candy manufactueres are forced to go off shore.
The intended consequence was that a handful of well-connected sugar farmers make out like bandits, while every consumer in US pays overpays for sugar (billions in the aggregate).
They both stink.
The loss of manufacturing jobs is the price paid to keep the sugar beet farms going.
The farmers have a better lobby.
I don't like this. Maytag. Fannie May. Now Hershey's. And many more I can't remember who all has gone to Mexico. Maybe I will boycott. I have no idea how old my Maytag washer and dryer are, high capacity, top-loading washer, brought them home when my aunt died in 1989. Like new then, small leak in washer otherwise ok, think the dial/timer is getting out of sync. Fannie May I can no longer afford although I see one of the new supermarkets less than one mile away carries some. I used to love to stop by the placein the mall they had and get a little bag of my favs, trinidads, fruit and rum, apricot something w/white chocolate and toasted coconut, orange peel, several others. Hershey's about all I buy of that are the powdered cocoa, like it the best, and sometimes regular chocolate bars for s'mores, kisses for peanut blossom cookies. We have a Nestle's plant here in town, wonder what they make? I can make my own chocolate-covered orange peel, but it is a lot of work, tastes the same, found several versions that sound fairly easy of a recipe for truffles, so I can make trinidads . . .
" The US sugar policy is borderline criminal."
All farm subsidies should be eliminated. All they do is distort economic activity.
The line in the article about the rate of pay was highlighted. Is this meant to imply that the union scale pay is high? I frankly don't think that $15.20 an hour--a little over $30K per year--is at all an unreasonable rate of pay for an adult. It does not buy a very fancy lifestyle in that area of PA.
I think the sugar subsidy had something to do with propping up the U.S. sugar industry after we broke ties with Cuba. If the program is going to have these kind of consequences maybe it should be scrapped.
The rate of pay isn't high, but still substantially more than Mexico. Of course, Mexico lost a ton of jobs to China, where the pay is even lower.
The bottomline is very simple: If American workers don't want to compete with Chinese and Mexican wages, then the solution is in trade policy.
That will come as quite a surprise to the larger body of Mexicans, who are directly descended from the same people.
Of course there is a grain of (misleading) truth in this: ...before the European Spanish killed them all...
Only the rulers of the Aztecs were allowed to use chocolatl and most of them did die at the time the ruling class was defeated by the Spaniards, or dismembered by their subject in the uprising immediately thereafter.
The common man, the indian, was forbidden to use chocolatl under penalty of death...
But your politically correct version is heads and shoulders above the truth in the war against the nasty Europeans and their culture. How advanced could they be? They never thought to rip out living human hearts, or practice cannibalism...
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