Or it’s the government propping up Big Dairy
It would be all well and good to decry the government “propping up Big Dairy,” if any kind of real social safety nets existed in our stupid country. Ya know, to help the actual people who would be out on their asses, if any large industry really started struggling.
But we’re not gonna do that in the USA, now are we?
Subsidizing industries, bending rules, creating loopholes, zero-interest loans, etc…that’s the closest we can come to securing and protecting the welfare of any large group of working-class people. It shouldn’t be that way, but the political climate is only getting WORSE, in terms of us being entirely unable to enact better solutions.
It just is what it is. Indirectly propping up regular people’s livelihoods by enriching the Cheese Barons is the best we can do, as stupid as it sounds to actually say that.
Same with the rest of the food system, the airlines, the private utility companies, auto makers, etc. I’m not gonna be the one to just say “well, we should stop propping up these fat-cats,” if it means people literally end up homeless.
The working people are basically hostages. If the government stops playing by the Ultra-Capitalists’ rules, well, they aren’t bluffing. They’ll just fold up a huge portion of whatever industry they’re currently invested in, let people become destitute by the tens of thousands, and re-invest that cash in some new racket.
Complaining about farm and cheese subsidies is like accusing the hostage negotiator of collaborating with criminals, because he sends some pizzas into the bank, during a hostage crisis. The poor hostages are the ones eating most of the fucking pizza. At least they won’t die hungry, if they end up getting shot. Don’t take their pizza away, just to keep it from the hostage-takers.
It was, but I do believe they’ve sold off a lot of it by now
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If they start trucking in cornchips and jalapenos…
That’s just the weekly stash
Can you in metric?
635,029,318,000 g
635029318 kg
63502931.8 mega grams
63.5029318000 megatonne
Or just teragram for nerds.
About 3/5ths of a metric megaton.
The prefixes go every 1,000 not every 10.
El queso del gobierno
Wait until you see Iowa’s yogurt lagoon.
I would empty that place in an evening of “just one more slice and I’ll go to bed”
Wisconsin is invading next week
That’s just my emergency stash. I try to keep at least two week’s worth of cheese there at any time.
Said the dragon of their hoard.
You’re welcome to have a ton or two. Tell 'em I sent ya
Working on my night cheese
Good God
LemonOsito
Being fat and full of cheese. Bliss.
Ok who’s been messing with their Skyrim console commands?
You should see South Dakota’s strategic cabbage chamber.
Idaho has potato caverns
This is my retirement plan. When the time comes, I’ll hide in the vast caves and eat cheese the rest of my existence.
There’s a bunch of these huge warehouse-like caves in Missouri, some are more natural, but many have been developed. They are super valuable because of the natural climate consistency.
An example near Kansas City: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubTropolis
It’s obviously for the https://midwest.social/
My people!
Enjoy your cheese.
Ever wonder where the phrase “government cheese” comes from?
Sorry for the YouTube link but this explains not only the phrase, but also the entire think this post is about.
Not this, it comes from the free blocks of Velveeta style “cheese” the us government would give low income families in the 1980’s
