Spring Wheat Rally/Miscellaneous

[wd9]

Mustard, please answer SouthPaw's question because it is exactly why this is all happening. I think we all eagerly wait a well thought out answer.

[johnsmith]

If mustardman would reply properly this is what mustardman would say.
"This is democracy in action" I enjoy the CWB.
This is what I say. I agree with
mustardman, this is democracy, but it is an example of a crown corp that our hapless polititions have not given much concern to. Its like the family member that can do no wrong, the little puppy dog affect, it can piss on the corner of the bed, shit in the kitchen and still live in inside, do no wrong, hopefully our gov't of the day has enough back bone to kick the little fricker out of the house. Politics is about the hunt, I hope the kill is coming soon.

[mustardman]

wd9 I grow 5 crops in a market system thats been around Since the time of christ- the open market-
I grow 1 crop that has a new marketing system-CWB-
I would like to keep it that way

[jrlee21]

Musterdman if you wont to keep the cwb why you are not telling the board to put a NEW BOARD marketing plan forward.

[jdepape]

Mustardman:

You've stated the obvious - we all know you want
to keep it the way it is.

The question is why do you think you should be
able to tell someone else how to market his
wheat?

[wd9]

Even more specific, why should you be able to tell southpaw who they can sell to?

Cuz apparently the conservative government believes in enabling rights and freedoms and that is what pisses you off. This has nothing to do with wheat or marketing or the CWB, does it musturdman?

[highwayman]

Mustard, do you believe that those five crops you grow under the open market system under perform in the marketplace compared to he CWB grains that you grow? Or is it that your complacent knowing that know one else can get a better price than you on their board grains?

[craig]

This thread wasn't intented to create a mudslinging match but to ask serious questions. As a followup to my original post, I would further ask the question. We seem to have some rules as to who automatically gets a ballot but we also seem to have a large numbers of ballots( 30%) sent out that would seem at the discretion of the CWB. Without rules or guidelines there is nothing to keep the board from sending ballots both east and to older farmers who they know represent their power base. What's most disturbing is that this is the same group who portrays themselves as defenders of democracy. On top of that we have no idea of the 48000 permit holders what percentage are actual farmers as compared to interested parties. The plebisite will tell us what we already know. Wheat board supporters support the wheat board.

[chuckChuck]

Since the question always come down to why should you be able to tell me how to market my grain? Would all the con supporters out there please tell me why supply manged marketing boards for dairy and poulry get a free pass on the freedom argument? If you are going to use the freedom argument then you should be telling Ritz that supply management needs freedom too.

[silverback]

Do you think there are the same number of people looking to get into supply managed production as there are grain farmers looking for the FREEDOM to sell their grain to whomever they want chuckles?

It's been said before, we'll start with the wheat board to level the playing field across canada, then we'll look at the supply mgmt. sector. Deal?