Milk Prices And Politics …
CANDIDATES BETTER KNOW THEIR DAIRY … The price of a gallon of whole milk dropped from $3.73 You must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
CANDIDATES BETTER KNOW THEIR DAIRY … The price of a gallon of whole milk dropped from $3.73 You must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Sounds like a gaggle of cackling old hens down at the beauty parlor.
A political site should understand the Big Picture, and explain it to us. You are as much a part as the problem, as the Dumbb@$$ democrats who gave us the architect of this disastrous, government-controlled economy. If you did not see it beforehand, and bashed those of us who did…you need to STFU now.
Sometimes it’s best not to eat too many of them shrooms off my head.
I want a President who knows the price of tea in China.
Hey, this pResident knows the price of a ‘sajada’. What more do you want?
Jon Huntsman 2016?
Here’s a question: How much of that $3.89 at Kroger is due to government meddling in the “free market?” The OECD claims it’s 26% Why? Because the price of milk is subject to: 1. Federal Milk Marketing Orders. 2. The Price Support Program. 3. The Income Support Program. 4. Import restrictions. 5. Export subsidies.
The federal government seeks to keep food prices low through a variety of means, but it pushes dairy prices up through the programs mentioned above. Perhaps by as much as $.26 on every dollar. An interesting note — many of the huge diary farms and milk conglomerates are in Red States, where the “farmers” troops dutifully to the polls to vote for Republicans who claim to oppose government spending, support fiscal responsibility, and cherish the free market. I think the word is “hypocrisy.”
The same applies to sugar. The U.S. price is 60-70% above the world market — mostly through subsidies and import controls which benefit a small group of sugar magnates in Florida.
I really like your comment!
Interestingly, the CPI, which is supposed to be a “unbiased” measure of price increases, includes milk…which as you note is subject to all sorts of government induced price distortion….yet another reason to cast a suspect eye on government measure of prices…which obviously is heavily influenced by politics instead of actually measuring what government claims it’s trying to measure.
An interesting note — many of the huge diary farms and milk conglomerates are in Red States…
According to Wikipedia, the top dairy-producing states are California, Wisconsin, Idaho, New York, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Idaho is the only “red” state in that bunch.
That said, I do agree with your concern about government meddling in food pricing.
Take a look at SC and GA too.
ITBGRC, 10 – 20 years ago the government paid many dairy farmers exorbitant sums of money to leave the business.
Yep, there’s a gentleman in Newberry I’m familiar with that took the Feds up on that very program (his father, actually, but he was working with him) and now has generational wealth and the cows were sold to S. America…with taxpayer subsidy….so the government made him with taxpayer money so that we can all pay higher prices too.
TBG knows some folks like him, also.
Why did you pay tax on milk?
Nancy Pelosi goes berserk (video) Leon Lott has a tough couple weeks and Kids Count data looks more like political propaganda.
We got it all on our site…..and yall are talking about milk prices. Inflation has raged since late 2008..and you are fixated on this? C’mon. No wonder you’re in the dark so much.
I want you to have my milk in your faggot mouth, pervert
T-Rav is more familiar with buying it in the white powder form by the gram.
At harris teeter near Fort Mill, it’s $4.99 a gallon. As a Charlotte outlier, prices are generally a bit higher. We go to Costco in Charlotte, where it has, outrageously, risen a dime, to $3.49 a gallon. We “pay” for our Costco membership, $55 a year, in the savings we make buying our milk there, and generally see that the prices we are paying on certain things are much cheaper, too. Cereal. Paper towels, TP. Not everything. So it’s completely worth it, but you have to check prices.
As Rosemary Dattalico, the mother of Jimmy Breslin’s first wife used to say,”You’re cheaper off” if you shop around.
Consumer Price Index-Average Price Data for several energy and food items.
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ap
Start at the earliest year in the data series and look at the prices in the good ol’ days.
ALL THE ICE CREAM YOU CAN EAT
For Only 10 Cents
http://digitalize.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/wpid-IMG_20110803_220857.jpg
The recession began with milk and gas both at 4 bucks.
The politicians at the Federal level (House, Senate, Executive and Judicial) and State executive level don’t know what the price is for a gallon of milk or gas is. They have other people buy their food and drive them around.