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Dairy gets squeezed by the feds
The Seattle Times ^
| 1 June, 2005
| Danny Westneat
Posted on 06/01/2005 6:50:25 AM PDT by Radigan
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To: Red Badger
I too was raised on a ranch/dairy. The dairy was grade "B" as we had chillers only for the milk cans. The creamery co-op truck would come twice a day to pick up our cans. It was a great life back then...and the smells were OK.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:00:15 PM PDT
by
afnamvet
(31st Fighter Wing Tuy Hoa AB RVN 68-69 "Return with Honor")
To: afnamvet
I remember the guy who used to pick up the milk cans and put them on the truck had the biggest arms I've ever seen. No steroids in that bod..........
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:02:07 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Goooooooogle your own name.............)
To: Radigan
I hate corporate welfare & protectionism. The feds have no business doing this....but somehow that never stops them.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:04:58 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(TEAM AMERICA ate my baby!)
To: Red Badger
Yep, ours too....huge arms. He would pull 'em up with one hand, swing the can and place it. Amazing strength.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:08:02 PM PDT
by
afnamvet
(31st Fighter Wing Tuy Hoa AB RVN 68-69 "Return with Honor")
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I don't care who you are...thats funny.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:09:01 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(TEAM AMERICA ate my baby!)
To: feinswinesuksass
Please read some of my post down thread.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:09:42 PM PDT
by
eastforker
(Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
To: eastforker
The problem is not lack of oil drilling, but the lack of refineries. The enviro-nuts have not allowed a new refinery to built in over 25 years.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:15:03 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(TEAM AMERICA ate my baby!)
To: afnamvet
He was also a mail truck driver (long haul, at night) I used to wonder if this guy ever slept!.............
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:17:17 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Goooooooogle your own name.............)
To: feinswinesuksass
True but that has no reflection on oil prices, supply and demand dictate that. we do not import gasoline.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:21:56 PM PDT
by
eastforker
(Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
To: eastforker
I did & still don't think the feds should be involved. It is that silly little lack of constitutional power thing.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:22:36 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(TEAM AMERICA ate my baby!)
To: eastforker
Yes, but if we had more refineries to process the oil to gas, the supply would increase thereby lowering the prices.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:23:50 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(TEAM AMERICA ate my baby!)
To: feinswinesuksass
Our food supply must be secure, a free market with free trade on imports does not do that.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:24:12 PM PDT
by
eastforker
(Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
To: feinswinesuksass
No, oil prices are a world market, has no influence on the ability to refine.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:25:44 PM PDT
by
eastforker
(Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
To: eastforker
What kind of milk comes from a forgetful cow?
Milk of Amnesia
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:25:46 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(TEAM AMERICA ate my baby!)
To: eastforker
Then, why did the gas prices spike after the big refinery explosion/fire a few months back?
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:26:30 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(TEAM AMERICA ate my baby!)
To: eastforker
I wrote gas prices...not oil prices.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:27:15 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(TEAM AMERICA ate my baby!)
To: feinswinesuksass
Ok thats cute, but, our food supply must never be dependent on conglomorations or imports, the small farmer must be able to survive to ensure our existence.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:28:22 PM PDT
by
eastforker
(Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
To: feinswinesuksass
Well gas prices are influenced by oil prices right?
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:29:30 PM PDT
by
eastforker
(Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
To: Radigan
Farmers and ranchers are typically very conservative... until you talk about their farm/ranch. Then, the quasi-socialist tradition of government price controls and handouts are -- pardon the pun -- sacred cows. I'm personally all for good ol' capitalist competition at that level just like every where else.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:30:39 PM PDT
by
TChris
(Liberals: All death, all the time.)
To: eastforker
The small farmer in this story IS the one getting screwed.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:31:09 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(TEAM AMERICA ate my baby!)
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