The Future of Your Foods and Green and Ag Czars - written by John
It’s nice to have food. That’s where everybody agrees. There are people who don’t eat meat and some that do, some, like myself, who don’t like Lima beans or certain generic brands of vegetables tasting like paper. And I like chocolate. A lot. But it’s not a necessity, and I can afford peanut butter cups and I think its a downright luxury to have a “cold one” (peanut butter cup) waiting for me in the refrigerator any time, night or day. Even if it eats up a blip of a watt of electricity.
I previously discussed a Czar who was given an OK to leave his post.
The following is purely fiction because Czars are not beholding to the US citizen so there would be no public record, so we have to guess:
Setting - White House, some room, a quorum is present.
Other Person
Guy? You called millions upon millions of Republican’s the A-hole word - in public. It's on video. Captured. By more than one person. It's googleable.
Guy -
Yes, yes I did. Yes. Yes it is googleable.
Other Person clears his throat. Heads of the quorum look at the floor.
Other Person -
You also singled out white farmers here in America not just as racists but also as polluters of the environment, and that White American Farmers were intentionally spraying poisons on minorities as they toiled in the fields.
Guy -
Un huh?
Other Person -
Guy, you accused people that grow America’s food racists and polluters and since you said they intended to spray poisons on minorities, you are calling these white people potential murderers, too.
You do have a Harvard Law degree, don’t you?
Guy -
Yes.
Other Person -
These tapes and videos are getting plastered all over the news and Face book and blogs, even the stations that we sway - on our side - are feeling the pressure now to run it finally. I mean, you don’t have a twin out there you’re not telling us about because right now he could be very helpful.
Guy -
No. No twin. Look. You know me. You hired me for a certain job. Czar!
Other Person -
No high fives, Guy. This is serious business.
Everybody in the room is staring at him.
Guy -
“I screwed up?”
Yes, you did, Guy.
Silence in the room.
Other Person
Guy, everybody here knows your level of competence and that is why we chose you.
Guy -
Thanks.
Other Person -
Too much heat. Right now we are trying to jam this Health Care bill down, I mean, present our concerns for the downtrodden and their health insurance because that 47 million, who mostly don’t vote or vote the other way, would certainly feel compelled to do so in 2012 and that would pretty much sow up the next election for us.
Guy waits for him to finish. An inordinate amount of time goes by.
Guy -
“And?”
End of Short Fictional vignette.
So back to farming and my reality, This farm. This attack on white farmers was pretty vicious and I am sure that if the shoe were on the other foot, the ACLU would be all over this one and American Farmers would have a huge class action suit and win it hands down.
I wrote the above in response to one fellow who wanted to know what my previous “blog” on LHarvest had to do with food and then he DIRECTED me to get my own blog. Directed? Are we all getting the flavor of what it would be like to live surrounded by this sort of attitude to free speech? A little scary for a so-called free country. And I certainly would like the American public to know that, too.
One more thing - Green Jobs. They are a good thing. If you knew, like we know, with boots on the ground 24/7 the issues in having “green” things like wind power generators, you would be shocked to find out some of it is hype for a short lived event for two, and it is so difficult that it’s not worth it for at least a ten acre farm to have even one.
Short lived event - there is just so much land and room for wind generators, or it requires special placement and it is possible that you could FORCE someone to put towers up - but PLEASE RECALL that a Kennedy KEPT AN ENTIRE WIND MACHINES FARM OUT of his line of sight and off the map because they would ruin his view of the ocean - or something like that. The fact remains, still, that this generator farm...
"...would be the first major offshore wind installation in the U.S., and one of the largest wind farms in the world. It would produce enough electricity to meet nearly 75 percent of demand on Cape Cod and nearby islands Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, with peak output of 420 megawatts."
We, our farm, wanted to get a wind generator back in 1997 but a plethora of BIG issues stood in the way, too -
1. It takes a permit for a wind generator and that permit would take many dollars to buy, and then it would have to be just so high, and it would have any number of issues attached to it. And those issues would take meetings and lawyers and more money for us.
2. Assuming it would go through, and was up and running, you now find out, that the hype you heard, about selling the excess power back to the Utility company was wrong. They would not do that when we started. Therefore the hyped break-even point for buying a wind generator, about 15 years - would make us dead - or signing papers with the Death Panel at the time if you go with the stats and everybody has their way. No satisfaction there, either. And not only are we still in the hole, we are IN THE HOLE. Pointless, even for couple of local yokel paradigm shifters.
3. There already is an infrastructure (buildings, salaries, vehicles) in place in Utility companies that requires a certain amount of revenue and profit to stay in business.
4. What all this selling of power back to the power companies has meant is that their profits will go down, they will be compelled to keep their shareholders at bay, required to raise the rate for electricity - to keep in business. That's higher rates for everyone. With wind power generators. But the green job to build it is there. And unless you have that green job, your realized profit after paying more for electricity, is now less. But you saved the globe for the Chinese to plunder with impunity (they are now creating two coal power electrical plants a week).
5. If you ever heard one of those wind generators, you wouldn’t want to live next to one. We would have lawsuits all over us, probably by the city we were giving power to. And then the environmentalists would lawsuit us for killing birds that flew into the blades. And if some graffiti artist should, heaven forbid, hurt themselves on it, stub a toe, another lawyer would pop out the earth and sue us for creating an Attractive Nuisance.
Example: You leave a tractor parked out in the middle of your property and if a kid can see it from the road and wants to play on it and hurts themselves - that is an attractive nuisance. Fence or no fence.
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