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Post by bolverk on May 22, 2008 14:00:21 GMT -5
Notice how the Democratically controlled congress keeps adding unrelated riders to Bills? Like $47 million in domestic spending on the War Funds Bill. Or the Farm Bill, being packed with funding for things that have nothing to do with farming. Besides, why do rich farmers need this. Yes the farm bill is truly a harvest of disgrace. And shows congress at it's worst. Yep, it was time for this bill and the subsidies to our millionaire farmers to be trimmed. But, congress had to cut the legs out from under the rest of the world and artificially inflate food prices again. Again, third world workers and farmers will pay the price. Our Democratically controlled congress at work again. |
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Post by bolverk on May 22, 2008 17:01:33 GMT -5
Why isn't Scotia's Pacific Lumber Company getting some of those Farm Subsidies? Fat cat farmers get payments, but an entire North Coast town hangs in limbo? Why, because wood is unimportant in our economy? Somehow I doubt that.
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Post by The Big Dog on May 22, 2008 19:35:33 GMT -5
Why Doesn't Congress Get It?
Simple... there is no money in it for them.
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Post by Mink on May 22, 2008 22:35:05 GMT -5
The "Democratically-controlled" Congress may have a mathematical majority of what 1-2-3.....right, a big majority and awhole lot of control!? Face it, Scotia's problem has nothing to do with this Congress. The workforce didn't shrink in a matter of months.
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Post by subdjoe on May 23, 2008 8:56:57 GMT -5
Remember Queen Nancys promises, Mink. She and the rest of the Dems were going to run rough-shod over the nasty, evil GOP and bring about a new dawning in America. So far, and it is way past her hundred days, all we have seen is business as usual.
And, in his original post, Bolverk is correct. this is the government version of the high gas prices - help the rich get richer. And brokered by Queen Nancy and her minions. Agribusiness doesn't need the subsidies. Heck, most farmers don't need the subsidies.
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Post by The Big Dog on May 23, 2008 13:40:50 GMT -5
The workforce has shrunk over a period of a couple of decades, as Mink correctly alludes. But what caused that shrinkage is the real question.
The timber industry, based in a very much renewable and sustainable resource I might add, has boomed in Oregon and Washington while it has pretty much ceased to exist in Northern California. This would be because of green political pressure on the state and the Congress to protect forests above all; at the expense of jobs, tax revenues and industry survival.
So at that level it has absolutely everything to do with Congress and the federal government.
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Post by bolverk on May 23, 2008 16:04:13 GMT -5
Yep, Butterfly should have been arrested for trespassing on private property. Along with the Judi Bari's and others that have destroyed the timber industry, a true sustainable resource.
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