{"id":3161,"date":"2014-02-18T06:35:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T11:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2014-02-18T06:37:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T11:37:40","slug":"numbers-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/numbers-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"The numbers don’t add up…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….or do they?<\/p>\n

We have a new Farm Bill and the “official story” is that there’s been a cut in spending.\u00a0 As the song goes:\u00a0 that’ll be the day.\u00a0 Despite reports, the fact is government spending is going up tens of billions of dollars, including for such as things as promoting Christmas trees.<\/p>\n

There’s also an “official story” from the government about increasing food prices.\u00a0 And then there’s the real story being experienced by consumers.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/food-prices-soar-as-incomes-stand-still\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Predictably, the sky-rocketing prices at the grocery store—ignored by most media—have moms blaming farmers.\u00a0 Seems we’re price-gouging, in their opinion.\u00a0 One thing the press\u00a0 sure has covered, is the complaints about greedy farmers.<\/p>\n

For their part, farmers are asking where is all the money they’re supposed to be getting?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/matrix.rabhost.org\/AscentCapture\/HHHHHH\/3012192.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

So what’s missing in this picture:\u00a0 consumers paying more, farmers getting less?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….or do they? We have a new Farm Bill and the “official story” is that there’s been a cut in spending.\u00a0 As the song goes:\u00a0 that’ll be the day.\u00a0 Despite reports, the fact is government spending is going up tens of billions of dollars, including for such as things as promoting Christmas trees. There’s also an “official story” from the government about increasing food prices.\u00a0 And then there’s the real story being experienced by consumers. http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/food-prices-soar-as-incomes-stand-still\/ Predictably, the sky-rocketing prices at the grocery store—ignored by most media—have moms blaming farmers.\u00a0 Seems we’re price-gouging, in their opinion.\u00a0 One thing the press\u00a0 sure has covered, is the complaints about greedy farmers. For their part, farmers are asking where is all the money they’re supposed to be getting? http:\/\/matrix.rabhost.org\/AscentCapture\/HHHHHH\/3012192.pdf So what’s missing in this picture:\u00a0 consumers paying more, farmers getting less?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-government"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3164,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}