We talking about this idiot?
Nam Vet
Posted on 02/17/2009 5:32:19 PM PST by devane617
Plains, GA (WALB) - The recent recall has hit the peanut industry so hard that even the former first family is affected.
Peanut farmers and companies were looking forward to a boost in sales when the economy took a downward spiral.
Consumers usually rely on peanut butter as a cheap source of protein.
But the salmonella outbreak has made it extremely hard for even Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter to make money of their peanut crop.
"We still grow peanuts on our farm," said the for First Lady. "And my heart goes out to peanut farmers because I know in our farm if it weren't for our pine trees, and thank goodness we've planted them all along, I don't know how we would make a living."
Last month peanut butter sales dropped more than 20% nationwide.
A Ewell Gibbons wannabe???
My thoughts exactly///Many parts are edible you know...
Time for a bailout of the peanut butter industry.
And BTW, did the reporters think that anyone in America still cared about Jimmy Carter? Or was this report intended for his supporters in the Gaza Strip?
I hear timber is down to $20 a ton, thats a lot of pine!
I’ll suggest the rabbit killer eat some fecal matter.
This TV station is about 20 miles south of Plains. Probably the only reporters that will talk to the Carters.
malaise.
Yep that $200,000 Presidential pension just isn't enough to live the high life in Plains.
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter...
my 6th cousin once removed...
Then we are like 12th cousins by marriage. ; ) We are about the same distance in cousins from Jimmah.
Oh bs. I wonder how much money that senile Carter gets from the Arabs? Plus his book sales ( not that a sane person would buy one IMHO) & his speeches. Oh those poor Carters living off peanut & pine trees....
>> “We still grow peanuts on our farm,” said the for First Lady... if it weren’t for our pine trees... I don’t know how we would make a living.”
Sniff. Oh, the hugh manatee.
Dear Roslyn,
Listen up honey, I’m here to help. Tie that goober Jimmy to a tree down in the swamp. When the killer rabbits swim in to attack him (and they will, trust me), shoot ‘em and you have meat to supplement your pine bark.
Regards,
N.T.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
I won’t blame you for your cousin;
if you won’t blame me for mine!
The peanut industry has had a continuous bailout for over a hundred years. Jimmahs ancestors got together with other wealthy plantation owners, and passed restrictions. You need a permit to grow more than an acre of peanuts....and there is a finite number of permits (Jimmah’s ancestors got a permit, you see). In fact, short of being decended from a wealthy post war plantation owner, it is darn near impossible to become a ‘poor peanut farmer’. I think they’ll survive.
We talking about this idiot?
Nam Vet
5.56mm
Wonder how many acres of pines they have. Pine straw, usually raked by illegals, is a great cash crop. You are paid in cash by the boss. You ask no questions, just take the money.
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