$7 Milk?

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  1. JEFF9K

    JEFF9K New Member

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    I doubt that you are in better shape than me. I'm a personal trainer. Not to brag, just keeping it real. My cholesterol is 147. Dr. Esselstyn says that keeping it below 150 will practically make a person immune to heart attack.
     
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    fiddlerdave Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Gotta love the Tea Party and their absolute CLUELESSNESS about our government!

    The REASON milk will rise to $7 per gallon for consumers is because the government, under Republican endorsed legislation is going to IMMEDIATELY spend BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS buying up milk to make an artificial SHORTAGE!

    This is how the farm subsidies ALL WORK! And the Tea Party as big a losers in this corporate welfare as every other fat cat supporter.
     
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    fiddlerdave Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323300404578207841282461764.html

     
  4. Jiyuu-Freedom

    Jiyuu-Freedom Keep the peace Past Donor

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    Everything we consume unless its all natural does something to us...Geez, I need my flavored creamers for my coffee and looks like maybe my dementia will subside...lol. I surely won't be able to afford it and as far a milk goes, I will eat my grain cereals like a snack.

    Obama is so selfish. All he wants to do is tax, tax, tax but watch them have plenty of milk on their dining table or to snack with oreos at midnight.
     
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    a completely plant based diet is not natural and will lead to vitamin deficiencies, especially in children, if not subsidies by vitamins and other nutrients in pill form.
     
  6. Montoya

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    Time for the government to forcibly take over farming. Another private sector fail.
     
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    thediplomat2.0 Banned

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    Explain how the ineptitude of government policy is an indication of private sector failure? Collusion? Yes. Failure? No.
     
  8. Montoya

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    Government is more efficient than the private sector.
     
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    thediplomat2.0 Banned

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    Explain, as deduce a reasonable assertion as to why this is an example of private sector failure and why the government is more efficient than the private sector. I await your published article in the Journal of Political Economy.
     
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    Well lets see...Oh yes the private sector single handily caused the 2008 collapse. Government rescues us from it, there is your example, "democrat".
     
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    Sorry, I doubt even Paul Krugman would consider the Global Financial Crisis as a fulfillment of my assigned task to you. First and foremost, I ask you to deduce an argument as to why the increasing of milk prices due to the fiscal cliff is an example of private sector failure. Then, I ask you to explain why the government is more efficient than the private sector. You do neither of the two.
     
  12. Montoya

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    Profits=the problem. Its really as simple a that.
     
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    Once again, this fails to answer the two inquiries. Try again, and this time apply some knowledge of basic economics.
     
  14. Montoya

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    No it does. Too bad you can't/won't see the light. Please withdraw from the democratic party, you are not wanted.
     
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    Unfortunately, Montoya, your explanation is inadequate. Not only are all your responses to my inquiries irrelevant, but they never characterize 'the problem'. Furthermore, I am certain the Democratic Party considers me a valuable asset. I am not only a registered voter with the party, but an integral volunteer with many of their local and national campaigns.
     
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    Good for you. I addressed your question its not my problem if you don't like the answer.
     
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    You certainly addressed the question, yet in addressing the question, you did not make a logically persuasive argument that any reasonable person can concur with. In turn, yes, I do not like the answer, but in terms of objective logical rigor, it is not up to snuff. The statement is not relevant, it is oversimplified, it lacks coherent correlation and causation, and the like.
     
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    Not my problem. I answered.
     
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    :bye:Maybe it would be better if we put them on a farm...then they would get the true pitcure of what real work really is.
     
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    :eyepopping:Oh really? You want them running our private sector businesses. The only thing they would be good at would be cheating the people. Thats all they are good at.
     
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    The government should have never started this subsidies for farmers. If they hadn't, maybe the farmers would have had an incentive to find a better, cheaper way to produce their product, but with the government giving them money, that ain't gonna happen.
     
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    If I had to eat only plant-based foods to live...i think I'd shoot myself.
     
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    My wife has read all three...she still eats meat. Her doctor's exact words at her last physical: "You are in the physical condition of an Olympic athlete half your age."
     
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    A special kind of farm for Montoya: a nut farm!
     
  25. CKW

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    Probably not. But I will take a look.

    You might read through this:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mercola/the-cholesterol-myth-that_b_676817.html

    I tend to feel the information in this article has more credibility then studies that drastically change a diet people have thrived on for years. Huffington post isn't my most sought after source---however this is the type of thing you can spend a day researching the sources.
     

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