Category: Economy
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Jim Hightower: “Wall Street Sodbusters”
Wall Street Sodbusters [Reposted with acknowledgement and thanks from Otherwords.org Please see original post page for copyright information.] Big-money speculators are buying up farms, charging tenants to farm it, and boxing young, real farmers out of the market. By Jim Hightower I love the names: Bobcat Farm, Golden Eagle Ranch, Long Prairie, Ten Mile Farm. They […]
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“War is the Health of the State”–But Not People
How’s this for a grand generalization? The United States is not great at providing health care and really good at waging war. And by “good” I do not mean effectively. We wage war a lot because we can afford to and very few Americans ever personally feel its considerable terrible effects. And we don’t do health care very effectively […]
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Corporations are People, Except at Tax Time
If we need anymore proof that a corporation is really not a person, we can turn to an item in the news which so far the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has not covered beyond printing a brief Bloomberg report in its Business section. The news is that, according to a U.S. Senate investigation, Caterpillar, Inc. (which four years ago purchased local mining equipment manufacturer […]
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Farm Subsidies & Food Stamps: Stuffing the rich, starving the poor
(CAFO hogs by USGS [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) If you operate a wealthy “mega farm” in Wisconsin or anywhere else in the nation, some lawmakers in Congress are working hard to make sure you keep receiving unlimited federal subsidies; in fact, they are willing to make small dairies and people on food stamps wait longer for milk […]
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CAFOs: A farm is not a factory
Much shocked outrage was voiced in Wisconsin after a recent undercover video taken at a dairy factory farm by the animal rights group Mercy for Animals was made public. The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation issued a statement saying the animal cruelty shown on the video was “reprehensible and disgusting. The video is hard to watch for those whose […]
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