Many farmers locally vote republican then lap up subsidies and have government insurance to be collected on the drought. I guess the tax reductions will mean services taken out of others. Even more humorously, the American COOP system was a socialistic attack against the big company farms to try to keep the small guys competitive. The big business took over the coop system and all those little guys have pretty much died out. And no one places any limits on stock prices or options to control food costs.
Just had a meeting with our school superintendent – I do try to keep up on things – and we discussed the constant rise in cost-per-student. Please note that the biggest cost increases come without anything changing, ie., insurance costs. Teachers get less insurance coverage than they did 20 years ago, but it costs 4 times as much, and the teachers have to pay more into it. The next biggest cost increase is a change – unfunded mandates from the state. Oh, and while some testing is fine, the constantly changing tests mandated by the state don’t even give the teachers a chance to find out what is supposed to be taught, let alone how to do it effectively.
Reminds me of the reaction of potato chip makers to Pringles. The latter are not made by the same process as conventionaL chips. So the conventional makers struck back. They renamed “National Potato Chip Month” to “National Real Potato Chip Month.” -Admittedly American cheese is rather blah. I don’t go out of my way to look for it. But not calling it cheese seems to me to parallel the reaction of a guy shot by a crossbow bolt —“I’m not really dead because that’s not a real arrow made the old-fashioned way.”
You can get real American cheese — you just have to look for (and avoid) the words “cheese food”. The difference in taste and mouth feel is astounding.
It could be done on some programs, not all programs. National defense for example is not one where people can ‘selectively choose’ not to support defending their country from an invading force.
What is the military going to do, defend one house but not the next? its all America and thus all needs to be defend or else another country will now own what used to be your land.
Your comparison is flawed for national defense.
It can work on other systems though, Social Security, National Healthcare for example, those can be setup for people to opt in or opt out. You opt in you pay the tax and get the benefits you opt out you don’t pay it and you can’t get it. Those programs (and others like it) can easily be setup that way.
As for highways in North Dakota, that could work too as an opt in system or out opt. If you opt out of Federal taxes for North Dakota highways and are caught driving on them you get a huge penality, say $10,000 plus or more plus losing the ability to ever opt out of that for the rest of your life and/or potential Jail time for failure to pay the fine.
People who don’t like an opt in or opt out system often want to take from others to get themselves something for free. They don’t want to be fair, they just are selfish and only want for themselves from someone else, instead of going out and earning it themselves. In America everyone has everyone opportunity to become a millionaire, they just have to go out and do it.
what? just talk about cheese? No one dared go to cutting cheese? or the other old favourites……...where does almond oil come from?where does olive oil come from?where does baby oil come from?where does walnut oil come from?.
I am a supporter of Social Security being an opt in system, but once you opt in you get out of what you put in. You cannot get more, you cannot get less. Thus the program remains solvent and works great. I don’t want to take it away from anyone, except those who are getting more out of it than they paid in, or get it and didn’t pay nothing in (Obama’s aunt for example) I in fact am one of the people who has paid into it for many many years and will probably never get anything out of it because it will go broke before I retire. Its the current system that says its just a tax and not an entitlement yet we are forced to pay into it, with no guarantee we will ever get aything out of it? you like this system?
el8 over 11 years ago
That’s the process.
RetroJenny over 11 years ago
Yep.
Linda1259 over 11 years ago
And head cheese comes from???
freeholder1 over 11 years ago
Many farmers locally vote republican then lap up subsidies and have government insurance to be collected on the drought. I guess the tax reductions will mean services taken out of others. Even more humorously, the American COOP system was a socialistic attack against the big company farms to try to keep the small guys competitive. The big business took over the coop system and all those little guys have pretty much died out. And no one places any limits on stock prices or options to control food costs.
cdward over 11 years ago
Just had a meeting with our school superintendent – I do try to keep up on things – and we discussed the constant rise in cost-per-student. Please note that the biggest cost increases come without anything changing, ie., insurance costs. Teachers get less insurance coverage than they did 20 years ago, but it costs 4 times as much, and the teachers have to pay more into it. The next biggest cost increase is a change – unfunded mandates from the state. Oh, and while some testing is fine, the constantly changing tests mandated by the state don’t even give the teachers a chance to find out what is supposed to be taught, let alone how to do it effectively.
jtviper7 over 11 years ago
Talking about cheese… Did the Cheese Heads get screwed last night ? Anyway Romano cheese is better.
Zaristerex over 11 years ago
Mmm, I want Genoa salami to go with my cheese now.
runar over 11 years ago
I’ve always said that “American Cheese” is an oxymoron.
Spooky D Cat over 11 years ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think agricultural subsidies are pretty common in Europe, too. And that would probably include Parmesan cheese.
rshive over 11 years ago
Reminds me of the reaction of potato chip makers to Pringles. The latter are not made by the same process as conventionaL chips. So the conventional makers struck back. They renamed “National Potato Chip Month” to “National Real Potato Chip Month.” -Admittedly American cheese is rather blah. I don’t go out of my way to look for it. But not calling it cheese seems to me to parallel the reaction of a guy shot by a crossbow bolt —“I’m not really dead because that’s not a real arrow made the old-fashioned way.”
REDROCKER51 over 11 years ago
i thought american cheese was from Wisconsin…
PShaw0423 over 11 years ago
You can get real American cheese — you just have to look for (and avoid) the words “cheese food”. The difference in taste and mouth feel is astounding.
Rickapolis over 11 years ago
Blessed are the cheesemakers.
angelfiredragon over 11 years ago
It could be done on some programs, not all programs. National defense for example is not one where people can ‘selectively choose’ not to support defending their country from an invading force.
What is the military going to do, defend one house but not the next? its all America and thus all needs to be defend or else another country will now own what used to be your land.
Your comparison is flawed for national defense.
It can work on other systems though, Social Security, National Healthcare for example, those can be setup for people to opt in or opt out. You opt in you pay the tax and get the benefits you opt out you don’t pay it and you can’t get it. Those programs (and others like it) can easily be setup that way.
As for highways in North Dakota, that could work too as an opt in system or out opt. If you opt out of Federal taxes for North Dakota highways and are caught driving on them you get a huge penality, say $10,000 plus or more plus losing the ability to ever opt out of that for the rest of your life and/or potential Jail time for failure to pay the fine.
People who don’t like an opt in or opt out system often want to take from others to get themselves something for free. They don’t want to be fair, they just are selfish and only want for themselves from someone else, instead of going out and earning it themselves. In America everyone has everyone opportunity to become a millionaire, they just have to go out and do it.
Hunter7 over 11 years ago
what? just talk about cheese? No one dared go to cutting cheese? or the other old favourites……...where does almond oil come from?where does olive oil come from?where does baby oil come from?where does walnut oil come from?.
angelfiredragon over 11 years ago
I am a supporter of Social Security being an opt in system, but once you opt in you get out of what you put in. You cannot get more, you cannot get less. Thus the program remains solvent and works great. I don’t want to take it away from anyone, except those who are getting more out of it than they paid in, or get it and didn’t pay nothing in (Obama’s aunt for example) I in fact am one of the people who has paid into it for many many years and will probably never get anything out of it because it will go broke before I retire. Its the current system that says its just a tax and not an entitlement yet we are forced to pay into it, with no guarantee we will ever get aything out of it? you like this system?
jimboylan over 11 years ago
Doesn’t blended American cheese come from Young American Minnesota, and a ranch along the American River in California?