7 dollar a gallon milk: dairy cliff

[poptab]

Milk prices may double in the New Year - Dec. 21, 2012


Wow. This is why we are in trillions of dollars of debt and we are never going to pay it back.

Does anyone else see how perfectly insane this is?

 

[Bunnykid68]

Does that mean it will be $2.00 at Aldi and Ruler Foods?

 

[ghuns]

Fine example of another failed government program.

 

[hornadylnl]

How many gallons of milk does someone go through that the price doubling makes or breaks your budget?

 

[poptab]

How many gallons of milk does someone go through that the price doubling makes or breaks your budget?

If you add the effect of all these subsidies up I guaruntee you its screwing over alot of people including you and me.

 

[RockofStrength]

How many gallons of milk does someone go through that the price doubling makes or breaks your budget?

I easily go through a gallon a day. It is my soda, setting aside cooking, cereals etc.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Weren't they predicting the same thing for beef and pork prices for the end of 2012 during the summer?

 

[hornadylnl]

If you add the effect of all these subsidies up I guaruntee you its screwing over alot of people including you and me.

I'm sure it is. But I pay that whether I buy milk or not. If the free market were allowed to work, those who use milk would be made to pay the cost of producing it.

I easily go through a gallon a day. It is my soda, setting aside cooking, cereals etc.

I don't drink a gallon of milk in a year. I rarely eat cereal. A gallon of milk usually goes bad in my house before its gone. Even a gallon a day at an increased cost of $4 per gallon is under $30 a week. Water is free.

 

[EvilBlackGun]

Is there just something about ....

..... falling-dominoe theory that you don't see and understand? Where is the end? With over 60,000,000 citizens on food-stamps, and the F.S. Program about to go belly up, where do you think prices are going? ADDED: Dunham's has Mosin-Nagant ammo @ 440rds / $90, until close on the 25th. Sniper-preparedness ideas.

How many gallons of milk does someone go through that the price doubling makes or breaks your budget?

 

[LEaSH]

Rice milk. Many will adapt to the taste or they'll go without.

 

[dominicandemon]

We already pay that, if you buy quality milk, instead of the crap milk most people buy.

 

[EvilBlackGun]

Let's do the same, "YOU want it, YOU pay for it" ....

... with Elmo, Sesame Street, National Pubic Radio, PBS ("Thank You", my a$$) et al! Too much subsidy of Liberal agenda and propaganda at MY expense. Same with Øbama cell-phones. If you want it, then YOU pay for it!

I'm sure it is. But I pay that whether I buy milk or not. If the free market were allowed to work, those who use milk would be made to pay the cost of producing it.

 

[poptab]

I'm sure it is. But I pay that whether I buy milk or not. If the free market were allowed to work, those who use milk would be made to pay the cost of producing it.

You mean people would have to pay for thier own ****?

 

[hornadylnl]

You mean people would have to pay for thier own ****?

Yep. Free markets for everything but guns.

 

[reedo]

Our government has failed us on so many levels. This is just anohter example of their failure.

 

[Cerberus]

And just where on the planet do we have a true free market?

 

[SaintsNSinners]

I have 2 kids... milk is kinda an important thing....

 

[hornadylnl]

I have 2 kids... milk is kinda an important thing....

So prioritize your budget?

 

[poptab]

I have 2 kids... milk is kinda an important thing....

Milk would likely be cheaper without government interference at all.
The current price of milk is propped up by .gov

.gov interference is mostly bad news for common folk.

 

[parsimonious]

Milk would likely be cheaper without government interference at all.
The current price of milk is propped up by .gov

.gov interference is mostly bad news for common folk.

I have heard a similar reference in regard to milk being cheaper.

What I have heard is that if the gov. didn't subsidize cheese and stockpile it,
[I don't know if they still do the above]
that Dairy products, being perishable, would mostly be thrown away.
US Dairies produce more milk than the world can consume.
Dairy products such as cheese, milk and butter would be unable to demand a price
that makes production worth while.
Dairies go out of business, more unemployed.
Those are the facts as I understand them.

US agriculture has been a mess for a while.