Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
USDA buys food products from eligible vendors, then gives them away to schools and eligible poor people.<\/p>\n
The purpose of the program: \u201cThe Agricultural Marketing Service\u2019s Commodity Procurement Staff purchase a variety of food products in support of the National School Lunch Program and other food assistance programs. These purchases also help to stabilize prices* in agricultural commodity markets by balancing supply and demand.<\/p>\n
*Euphemism for price supports, aka subsidy to food producers.<\/p>\n
Lots of foods are available including raisins. Raisins? We need to create an artificial shortage to support higher prices for grape growers? Yes, except one of the growers is pissed the government forces him to hand over his crop and brought a Takings claim. The case went to the Supreme Court which ruled he didn\u2019t have to pay the fine for failing to turn over his crop before he could bring a Constitutional challenge to the law requiring him to turn over his crop or pay a fine. The government didn’t pay for raisins, they took them, to feed the poor. Barak “Raisin Robin Hood” Obama.<\/p>\n
The whole system is insane. We buy food and store it in warehouses to make food artificially expensive and therefore more profitable to producers, but then poor people can\u2019t afford food so we truck it around the country and give it to them for free. Stop The Madness! Don\u2019t buy the food, let the market decide how many producers can produce food and still be profitable, let Cub and Rainbow warehouse and ship it, let prices slip so poor people can afford it. The market will take care of everything if we just get the hell out of the way!<\/p>\n
Why is that so hard to understand?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If you leave out the forced labor (so far) and use of food as a terror weapon, the similarity to the Soviet agriculture plans of the 1930s will make you pound your head on the desk.<\/p>\n
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