The price of milk and Fiscal Cliff.

I don't know much about farming but did you ever try to grow something? There's always something looking to eat it or mold, hail, wind or drought or some other thing never even thought of. I can see legitimate reason to subsidize legitimate need because there are legitimate catastrophic risks.

Food subsidies benefit consumers by lowering their prices.

 

I'm surprized milk is subsidized. What else is subsidized? Im going to try to find the farm bill.

 

The "Cliff", has been traversed and all is not well.....In thirty days it all starts over.and again we can and will keep on spending....wheres my ak rifle ???It's gone????Now some mentally deranged person can have use of it.....because we do not have mental institutions, where this person and others belong......THINK ABOUT IT

 

:sunny:

 

I don't think the price of milk will go up. Otherwise only half as much will sell, and the dairy industry will get stuck with millions of gallons. The farmers can't just tell the cows not to produce.

 

$7-8 a gallon is about what we pay for milk in Canada.

What really pisses me off though, is how fucking cheap your chicken McNuggets are.

 

Does everything 'sound like socialism' to Americans?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#United_States

The World Tonight
First broadcast: Tuesday 01 January 2013
Seven teachers and health workers have been shot dead by gunmen in north-west Pakistan; the centre where they worked provides education for women and organises vaccination programmes. The US House of Representatives is debating a deal agreed by President Obama and the Senate to avert steep tax rises and spending cuts. And how does commodity trading affect the price of food? Presented by Philippa Thomas.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01phhbf

 

Only to the extremist right wing nut jobs.

 

I don't know about that. Went to the store today and there was not a gallon of milk to be had. All that was left was milk no one wanted.It was like something you would see pre or post disaster. Guess people got scared and got milk just in case.

 

Its Fiscal Cliff cos GFC got old and they knew GFC III wasnt going to have an impact. But it does just seem to be US and EU, the rest of us dont care

 

its always something...