tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post4267843613478090835..comments2023-10-08T04:12:46.273-05:00Comments on The Political Environment: It's an election year, so Walker discovers WI dairy 'crisis'James Rowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-85756556558146978302018-06-07T00:09:34.780-05:002018-06-07T00:09:34.780-05:00For people that think poo is gold Walker is their ...For people that think poo is gold Walker is their guy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-2600559548407070022018-06-06T20:53:08.332-05:002018-06-06T20:53:08.332-05:00I agree that the love from the Dairy Business Asso...I agree that the love from the Dairy Business Association, CAFOs, and other Big Ag gives to Scotty is a big part of this problem, Anon. These guys are big enough to not need much of a margin and can cut costs through their huge scale. Ma and Pa Kettle can't, and that's who's going out of business.<br /><br /> Scotty clearly got polling indicating he was losing rurals on this and related issues, and so the grifter is desperately trying to seem like he cares and is doing something. I'd prefer a Guv that actually cares about finding solutions to problems before it's an election year. Call me crazy. Jake formerly of the LPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660401299391001751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-83134867504332445182018-06-06T13:05:28.169-05:002018-06-06T13:05:28.169-05:00Good post, but I feel compelled to bring another i...Good post, but I feel compelled to bring another important item to the table. Most people have never heard of a monopsony, which is a market in which there is only one buyer. <br /><br />And just like a few sellers essentially act act together, with or without direct collusion, and effectively have all the power of a monopoly -- this is what is destroying Wisconsin's dairy heritage.<br /><br />Farmers sell a commodity and all the power is in the hands of a few corporations. They get their price or they don't buy at all. This is what the republican agenda, state and national, creates. Big cheese and milk processors have no use for family dairy operations.<br /><br />Sadly, these ill-informed people tended to overwhelming support Scott Walker and the out-of-state corporate agenda he and his republican cronies represent. Wisconsin's media never told the truth about what was happening -- hiding behind the lie of objective journalism (that republican and democratic perspectives are always equally valid wither they are accurate and honest).<br /><br />While being shills for Scott Walker is what brought down Journal Communications, please not that right-wing hack Christian Schneider is still a prominent GOP rock start there. The more things change, the more they stay the same.<br /><br />It will be interesting to see what Walker does to replace the propaganda shill Charlie Sykes that pumped up the republican lies year after year across much of Wisconsin. Walker is postering and the media across Wisconsin will largely hold him up now as a friend of the family farmer.<br /><br />Framing this as being about "over-supply" does not tell the full-story. The dairy monopsony creates this illussion -- there is no "free market" for milk.<br /><br />I believe we will not see change until there is more said about how the corporate agenda destroys the economy for workers, family businesses, and struggling families.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com