Posted on 10/12/2016 10:24:07 AM PDT by MichCapCon
Puzzling that they don’t treat them like government cheese and distribute them to the moochers and the unfortunate.
FDR forced a lot of this type activity during the depression. People were starving and food/animals were withheld from the market & dumped.
Managed markets are always favored by dems and commies.
Sweet cherry growers do just fine in the free market
[Puzzling that they don’t treat them like government cheese and distribute them to the moochers and the unfortunate.]
A friend passed a picture of the lunch that was served to her son at the public high school at our meeting last night. He sends her pictures every day of the c-— they feed him. 300 calories, inedible, and inexcusable.
He’s into sports and was so weak, he had to skip practice.
THIS is a campaign issue! Balanced Diet for a Strong Nation
Every Christmas for the last fourteen years have ordered the same items from Cherry Republic in Glen Arbor and they have become pretty standard fare as stocking stuffers for family members.
This summer we received a letter from them highlighting all the various liberal causes they are “pleased to be able to contribute to”. Made me angry and very sad to ask them to take me off their mailing list. Just don’t understand why companies choose to get involved in the political arena or if they get involved why they advertise their donations.
Now it looks like they have more problems. Interesting.
If you like your cherries you can keep your cherries. But what is really important is some AA loser, who is unemployable anywhere else, can keep her job in DC.
Most people, moochers or not, wouldn’t know what to do with a tart cherry if they had one. It takes skill to make a cherry pie.
(Billy Boy, Billy Boy . . .)
The Republican-controlled congress cna authorized the forced dumping of cherries, but they won’t impeach Traitorobama and his kakistocrats.
No wonder Congress is rightly referred to as Traitorcongress. May the great-great grandchildren of the members of Traitorcongress still spit on their graves.
These USDA “marketing orders” are a remnant of one of FDR’s many statist, failed, economic and social-engineering projects, which is all approved as a valid Constitutional activity of Fed.gov by the universally misrepresented “interstate commerce clause.”
Hey, you're showing our age, since we both know that's not a reference to the serial rapist!
Somewhat related:
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAOC/bulletins/15ef836
...WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2016 –
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced plans to purchase approximately 11 million pounds of cheese from private inventories to assist food banks and pantries across the nation, while reducing a cheese surplus that is at its highest level in 30 years.
The purchase, valued at $20 million, will be provided to families in need across the country through USDA nutrition assistance programs, while assisting the stalled marketplace for dairy producers whose revenues have dropped 35 percent over the past two years...
Cannot leave her mother....
The cherry farmers need Congress to force gas companies to use cherry ethanol as fuel. (I wish that was sarcasm)
Indeed. That subject was the source of the only harsh words I received from my FIL. He was lauding FDR and how he cared about the people having enough to eat, when I asked him how forcing dairy farmers to pour milk into the ditches and forcing pork farmers to slaughter and burn their hogs contributed to that. Good memories...
The tart pie cherry market has a limited demand; people only eat so much per year. Growers will deliberately leave millions of pounds on the trees in order to not crash the price.
If we all ate more cherry pie, the problem would be solved
The free market would actually take care of a surplus if the government would stay out of it. When prices drop, cherry farmers start growing something else and the market remains stable without waste and manipulation.
It’s really very simple. It’s not the way of centralized governmental control, but it’s simple and effective.
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