Friday, May 24, 2013

A banner year for Big Sugar billionaires ... by gimleteye

What a blessed year if you love Big Sugar. The Obama White House is pinned down by an IRS scandal involving heightened scrutiny of tea party entities -- funded by large corporate interests, mainly -- while Marco Rubio, US Senator and tea party favorite doles out the biggest subsidy / gift in the Farm Bill. It happened in the US Senate just the other day. Big Sugar billionaires were popping the Dom.

The sugar subsidy extracts profits for billionaires and helps poison people, poison the Everglades, and poison democracy.

Then there is the Tallahassee give-away to Big Sugar. The legislative session Big Sugar got what it wanted on several important fronts: all point in the direction of a status quo that imposes minimal penalty on the industry for its pollution of the Everglades. Moreover, while Florida environmentalists were making gut-wrenching compromises in order to avert the worst of what the sugar lobby set in motion, Big Sugar's lawyers were busily probing every available avenue to weaken protections required by federal law.

On this political pool table, every bank shot by environmentalists is against a curved surface. Every bank shot by Big Sugar is guided by magnets straight into the pocket. That's the power of money.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who funds the corrupt IRS?

Anonymous said...

Mad ravings like this are making you irrelevant.

Anonymous said...

Which part is "a mad raving". Anyone who follows what Big Sugar is up to, knows the industry spends plenty of money to make sure that people are all under the impression that all is well. BS.

Anonymous said...

I agree with some of the price supports in the Farm Bill. Although I do believe that if all were eliminated, we would still be able to find affordable, nourishing foods locally instead of using fossil fuels to transport the food. That being said, what is the reasoning behind price supports on sugar? It isn't as if sugar is a necessary staple, unless you are the cookie monster.

Anonymous said...

Disappearing wonders: World Heritage sites in danger: #5 Everglades National Park, United States

http://travel.yahoo.com/ideas/disappearing-wonders--world-heritage-sites-in-danger-010750463.html?page=5

Anonymous said...

Disappearing right into Big Sugar's wallet.