On 11/26/2017 9:53 PM, Casa de perritos felices wrote:
> On 11/26/2017 7:13 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 11/26/2017 5:57 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Face is. The US dairy business is suffering because of
>>> overproduction. Farmers can't sell their milk and processors can use
>>> up all the surplus. Supply management keeps the supply and the prices
>>> stable.
>>
>> And dairy farmers want to be dairy farmers even if the can't sell what
>> they have.Â* I hear it around here all the time.Â* My great grandfather
>> was a (farmer, dairy farmer, fisherman, lobsterman, etc) as was my
>> grandfather, father and I want to be one too.Â* Supply and demand has
>> nothing to do with it.Â* The ability to make a living has nothing to do
>> with it.
>
>
> Hah.
>
> The passion argument.
>
> Now explain subsidies.

I can't. Nor can anyone else from what I've read about them. Seems
like a fleecing of the taxpayer promoted by lobbyists.

The passion argument goes to many careers. You can graduate from
college with a degree in 4th century Greek sculpture, have $60,000 in
student loans and wonder why you cant get a job. But i wanted to study
Greek sculpture.

At various times the government was buying out fishing boats, cows, farm
fields to control production. I don't think it worked.