In Monty Python’s parody “Life of Brian,” bad acoustics and petty bickering make it difficult for a group of bystanders to catch all the details of a Sermon on the Mount. “I think it was. . . ‘blessed are the cheese makers,’ ” comes the translation.
Those aren’t words that inspire the faithful, but they do appear to have inspired agricultural regulators in California. During the past weeks, a battle over milk prices in the Golden State turned ugly, pitting dairy farmers against cheese makers, with consumers caught in the middle. Accusations of “bullying” and “shaving the truth” filled the air; but more pointedly, the confrontation exposed the utter insanity of a price-fixing system that would make Soviet central planners blush.
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government, government and more government will be the ruination of this country. the next four years will be a very bumpy read, hang on to your wallets.
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So what's you suggestion for a better residence? Looking for a civilized country with no government health care? Keep looking. the happiest counties are deemed to be in scandinavia, who have even more government.
Regulatory schemes almost always arise either from the desire of companies to be protected from themselves or as a reaction to egregious misbehavior by those same companies. What exactly would Mr. Sununu propose as an alternative approach?
We have the best system of government ever devised, yet there are always naysayers for whom it is never good enough. Good enough for whom? Big business and corporations. Regulation of the dairy industry, like any such enterprise, limits profits, and that's always the bottom line for pro-corporate propagandists like Sununu. I doubt if he has any real interest in the small independent dairy farmers, if there still are any, but will always go to bat for the factory farm industry. Cheesy, indeed.
Everyone's an expert taking the clock apart, but putting it together so it keeps time is another story.
Now THAT is a quote worth remembering.
Anybody who's done even casual reading can understand the reason for allegedly-higher dairy prices here: a dramatic reduction of small, family-owned farms as corporate mega-farms have taken over, and the dramatic shift in Washington's ways of doing business driven by lobbyists. With that, I wonder why Mr. Sununu chooses this particular soapbox: is it that he has connections to supports as does Michelle Bachmann or is it that the lobbyists just didn't give him enough this cycle?
If he wants to write about consumer protection and fairness, why doesn't Sununu focus on the banks and defense contractors who truly rip us all off?
California has taxed, spent, and regulated itself into BANKRUPCY. Right now Massachusetts and the federal goverment are trying to do the same.