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Comment by doone on June 10, 2012 at 11:25am

Comment by doone on June 10, 2012 at 11:19am

Interesting InfoGraphic about Canada - why the big increase in military spending - it is almost as if it has a large spendthrift neighbor they are trying to imitate, join or fear?

Comment by Chris on June 9, 2012 at 8:09am

The chart is for food, meaning that the alcohol would be for human consumption. Ethanol Blamed for Record Food Prices says that 40% of the corn grown in the U.S. is used ethyl alcohol fuel. 6.5 billion gallons of ethanol were produced last year. It would be interesting to see how much grain is used for cattle. Where did you get the graph Keely?

Comment by Davy on June 9, 2012 at 7:37am

Well! I am a meat eater but when you have to subsidise the meat producers that much means that the meat producers are actually not economically viable!

I agree with you Neal it is totally backwards. 

@ Chris Ethanol or more correctly ethanol fuel, is ethyl alcohol the same stuff you drink only its about 99% pure alcohol. That is why when car motors had long stroke engines they could run on whisky, vodka, rye whiskey. So it could be lumped in with the alcohol sector.

Comment by Neal on June 9, 2012 at 6:28am

Amazingly sick chart. Totally backwards.

Comment by Chris on June 9, 2012 at 5:33am

I signed up for a Farm Bill Webinar that's taking place on June 14 from 2-3 p.m (EDT) that The Union of Concerned Scientists is hosting. Click here to sign up.

Keely, Shouldn't the pie chart have ethanol on it? 

Comment by doone on June 8, 2012 at 7:21pm

The consequences of Wisconsin

by David Atkins

Digby noted earlier that, despite the press and the GOP jumping all over President's Obama's "gaffe" this morning that "the private sector is doing fine," the President is correct that the private sector would be doing much better but for the austerity-fueled anemia of the public sector. Predictably, Obama is walking back his remarks as we speak.

Well, here's Mitt Romney:

“[Obama] says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers,” he said. “Did he not get the message from Wisconsin? It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.”

This is what it has come to. Direct attacks on some of the most popular professions in America from a candidate who is explicitly saying he wants to fire teachers and firefighters, while implicitly denying their identity as "America people."

This, even as the core of the President's argument that private sector growth has been dragged down by public sector austerity remains entirely accurate.

These are dark times.

Comment by Michel on June 8, 2012 at 7:06pm

Don't say that Keely!
You'll hurt their feelings...

Comment by Davy on June 8, 2012 at 4:26pm

Yep! It changes democracy to corpocracy!

@Keely- It makes me sick too!

Comment by Chris on June 8, 2012 at 4:24pm

I saw more employee problems at diseased work environments than good work environments. Employee's who were lazy ass holes at decent places to work were usually effectively counseled, trained, moved to a different job, assigned to a different work group, or with a different work partner, or dismissed. At diseased work environments ass holes were promoted.

The Citizen's United ruling is going to make advertisers a lot of money. Is campaign finance reform possible? Are we going to find out how the candidates payback election costs?

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