The Conservative Corpse

[parsley]

How about the concept of the CWB's contingency fund gone broke.

Kaputska.

Mismanagement.

Should Canadian taxpayers pick up the tab?

Should Ontario Wheat Marketing Board chip in?

Should future DA bushels pay the tab?

Should past DA bushelers be sent a bill?

Should the CWB fold?

Should there be a public hanging?

Or should it all be hidden and farmers lied to?

Pars

[jensend]

so i guess we all agree that, other than the cwb, markets for agricultural production and inputs are functioning really well? supply and demand are setting prices and free enterprise is thr norm?

[parsley]

You sound defensive about what's good for the goosed is good for the gander.

[jensend]

no i don't think i'm defensive; i'm just not as dogmatic as some i guess. like i said, nobody's wrong all the time so i'll look at what they have to say.

[jensend]

i think it's legitimate to ask those who so vehemently disagree with the paper if they think markets, other than the cwb, are efficient and functioning well in supplying prices for production and inputs that actually reflect the supply and demand fundamentals. what say you parsley? a simple yes or no will suffice.

[parsley]

100% legitimate to ask.

[jensend]

you say so much with so few words! i'll take it as a no.

[parsley]

Yes, there are markets, other than the cwb, that are efficient and functioning well in supplying prices for production and inputs that actually reflect the supply and demand fundamentals.

[parsley]

I would choose the phrase, "in spite of the effects the wheat Board has on all markets",


instead of the phrase you chose.

Parsley

[haveapulse]

Pars, markets have some level of efficiency, relying on pure competition, inputs do not.

With inputs socialism for capitalists exists in many forms; TUE, intellectual property rights, import restrictions, all indeed are forms of protectionism, In a farmers purist world which sees valor in braving the sword and the shield alone ironically the hated protectionism is the world from which he purchases the inputs.


Problem with farming is we have the worse of both worlds, pure competiton, and socialism for capitalists, and to add to that we have the CWB.

And I keep hearing this song.. And don't that make your blue eyes, red.