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This entry is unfortunately based on completely perplexing items being promoted and the sheer stupidity of them. It is my opinion but I think the US Federal government has gone off the deep end – nabuang na, nuts, crazy, or insane.
There are 1.9 million farmers in the USA and 200,000 large commercial farms. The 1.9 million farmers that obviously make a tremendous amount of food are in danger of being put out of business by the Federal Government. Why would the USA government due something so suicidal to the food supply?
The answer is because cows and pigs fart.
I’m not joking. The Environmental Protection Agency has ideas of taxing farmers based on the number of cows, cattle and pigs they have because of the insane and disproven idea that cow and pig farts cause global warming. (Let’s overlook that it isn’t warming and CO2 has nothing to do with it.) I’m not kidding.
If the farmers can survive, then a basic fact of the marketplace kicks in. The taxes and costs are always passed on to the consumer. So when times are tough, we need to put farmers out of business and make food much more expensive so we can combat cow farts. The Federal Government doesn’t factor the rising cost of food into their inflation index. So they’ll stare blankly at increased foreclosures and wonder why people aren’t spending more money on useless junk. We hear it now. …
“Buy more, spend more money!”
Except people like to do silly things like purchase food, pay their mortgage or rent, get all the forms of energy needed, reduce debt, and some pay for day care.
Of course the most obvious thing, while the government makes life harder to live, is to have the government spend us into oblivion to fix the economy in ways that have no chance of working. When the world is in a global recession, our manufacturing base is in pieces, the main economic driving force (the Baby Boomers) are retiring, we should obviously spend immense amounts of money we do not have nor can recover. But hey, FDR did it so why not do it now?
The best argument is because it failed miserably the first time. But who cares about history and what the entire world knows! Let’s do it anyway and maybe this time Einstein’s definition of Insanity will not hold!
How do we know it flopped badly? History tells us at the end of FDR’s second term the economy was getting worse, unemployment at over 20% and the Treasury Secretary of then gave the best answer.
“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. … I say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot.”
But hey, that’s the past. Let’s give it another crack while we tax the farts out of farmers.
Nakakaloka!
Thank you,
Anah
na daut na na ron.. i doubt nga pigs and cows fart destroy the ozone layer..na.. if they will implement such taxes, magkabuang na jud ta anig pamalit kanang mga dili fresh ay.
what was the govt been thinking?..
Hey Ate Anah!
Yes I agree with your post. They shouldn’t give more burden to the farmers because as you said the consumer will pay for those additional costs and taxes.
Sometimes the people in charge don’t think before they implement something.
The UN produced a report in 2006 documenting the problems with livestock. Unfortunately, as crazy as it sounds, there is some truth in the cow “wind” problem, which is more harmful than CO2.
We are destroying the planet. Who is willing to give up driving? My guess – not many. How many are willing to pay extra bucks for a steak? My guess – plenty.
I’m not too worried about the farmers, they’ll just pass along the expense to the consumer. Meanwhile, most of us just hope that science finds a way to save us without forcing us to give up any of our “conveniences.”
Here’s a link to an article about the report:
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/cow-emissions-more-damaging-to-planet-than-cosub2sub-from-cars-427843.html
Nova, Edgar – Thanks for commenting. Long time no hear from you ha. How’s life dyan sa Canada?
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The key part is the farmers being able to absorb the licensing hit on top of the the increased feed grain prices because of government’s push on corn ethanol. The farmers have to survive the initial hit before they can pass it on to the consumer. The 1.9 million farmers that are most vulnerable to changes like the increased licensing costs can sink them. The bill will be due long before the costs can be passed on. Basic small business cycles dictate this.
As for any UN reports, the UN is a joke and their reports are laughable on many levels. Putting any faith in what they spew out sets one up to be conned.
Please pause and think about this a moment. It doesn’t matter if you believe in an old or a young earth as this point holds. Before people were plentiful, there were far more animals farting. Very little has changed over time or in all likelihood, the “wind” produced by animals has decreased.
Are we destroying the planet? Look again. Please do a search of my site on Global Warming. The topic is so easily debunked it isn’t funny. Don’t get fooled by the con artists.
They proclaimed we were all going to die in an ice age 20-30 years ago. It warmed up. Now it is cooling. They have yet to get much of anything right. Ignore the hype.