Lefties cry about women's rights, gay rights, the right to taxpayer paid abortions, homeless rights,....rights, how about rights for western farmers?
I can't understand the opposition MP's who want only freedom for eastern farmers, while our western farmers are crying to be treated the same as those same eastern farmers. Why are the eastern farmer's not sticking up for our western farmers? Silence.
More at the National Post:
Marni Soupcoff posts a Manitoba farmer's plea: Please let me sell my own barley
One commentor in particular shows his/her ignorance about the power of the CWB.
by umcrouc0
Mar 05 2008
2:18 PM If the majority of farmers want to get rid of the CWB they should be able to. I personally think it's the worse economic decision imaginable but that's only because monopolies are so effective in maximizing profits that they have been outlawed in nearly every other sector of business so that consumers don't get ripped off. If farmers decide they want to do what is best for consumers and worst for producers that's their decision. Just don't be surprised when the basic rules of economics come into play. Have fun with those 80,000 new competitors you'll be pricing against.
The worse economic decision imaginable? Sure monopolies maximize profits, but the CWB is NOT a monopoly, it competes in a world market, it's influence on world prices is close to zip! They only control the price western farmers get, so who is sucking up profits if it isn't the farmers? Let's get a look at the CWB books.
I grew up in a farming community, and this injustice to our western farmers needs to be stopped, it's a disgrace. No government agency should have total control over individuals, like the CWB does, it can jail our farmers for trying to sell their own product, and they have done so in the past.
So much for lefties supporting minorities. So much for fairness. This is a perfect example of socialism at work, and it isn't pretty.
9 comments:
Ahhh...gut the CWB is a monopoly...its the only organization that farmers can sell to. So they can artifically depress the price that they pay to farmers without any concequences
Since the Liberals, the NDP and the Bloc believe that the CWB is such a fantastic benefit for farmers, I would expect that they will pass new legislation over the opposition of the Conservatives to extend its benefits to Ontario and Quebec farmers as well. Failure to do so could be seen as an unfair bias against eastern farmers.
More correctly, that's called a monopsony. Monopsonist, the only buyer in a market. So, when it changes the price for one western farmer, it changes the price for all western farmers. It can't change the price a eastern farmer receives, as that eastern farmer can sell to someone else. Western farmers have no choice.
HA. Anon 3:22, right that's going to happen!
Exactly anon, if it is such a great thing to have the CWB controling the Western farmers product, then why are we not hearing about the great injustice being done to the eastern farmers??
Well, because they know that we out here in the west are just to friggin' stupid to handle our own product.
I totally agree with this guy. The government shouldn't be messing around with people's work and hard earned money. They should let them succeed on their own accord and take responsibility for their success. I also don't believe that Canadian farmers should rely heavily on subsidies and tax breaks as they currently do. Its creating an unfair advantage in the world market. The only reason these subsidies are there is because the sustain a 'traditional' Canadian occupation. I really don't see how a farmer should be treated differently than an auto worker in Ontario.
Not only would elimating subsidies bring fairness to all Canadian workers but it would enable third world nations to have comparative advantage when selling their own wheat and products, something they often don't have because they can't compete with the breaks Canadian and American farmers get. Sounds kinda like a liberal argument but that is real way to empower developing nations.
I wonder if MPs east of Manitoba will excuse themselves when it comes to voting on the CWB, given that CWB legislation only applies to western farmers.
The sight of Bloc Quebecois MPs telling western farmers how to run their business would be painful to watch.
Geoff, I agree, that subsidies of any kind are harmful, but so is the CWB to western farmers. Farmers must compete against other heavily subsidized countries like France. Until all countries agree to no subsidies, they will remain.
What makes agriculture different from the auto sector is that you can't eat a car, if farmers stop producing.
How many farmers from the east have gone to jail to protest NOT HAVING to sell their production to the CWB?
How many western farmers have gone to jail to protest HAVING to sell their production to the CWB?
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