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Most folks expect their elected officials to support U.S. farmers, local jobs, fair trade and affordable prices at the grocery store.
Congressman Mike Thompson does all of those things by backing U.S. sugar policy.
Sugar policy operates without taxpayer cost, helps thousands of farms from California to Florida and backs 142,000 jobs nationwide, including hundreds at the local C&H refinery.
What’s more, the price of sugar today is actually cheaper than it was in 1980.
Amazingly, the congressman was personally attacked by a D.C. lobbyist, Nicholas Pyle, for defending local jobs.
Pyle is paid to promote the outsourcing of U.S. sugar production to subsidized foreign industries that break international trade law and employ child and slave labor.
His clients hope Congress will reward these bad actors to the detriment of U.S. farmers and workers so they can save a couple of pennies a pound on ingredient costs.
That’s terrible policy. Made in America means something to most reasonable people. Too bad D.C. attack dogs like Pyle aren’t paid to be reasonable.
Phillip Hayes represents the American Sugar Alliance, based in Arlington, Va.
Congressman Mike Thompson does all of those things by backing U.S. sugar policy.
Sugar policy operates without taxpayer cost, helps thousands of farms from California to Florida and backs 142,000 jobs nationwide, including hundreds at the local C&H refinery.
What’s more, the price of sugar today is actually cheaper than it was in 1980.
Amazingly, the congressman was personally attacked by a D.C. lobbyist, Nicholas Pyle, for defending local jobs.
Pyle is paid to promote the outsourcing of U.S. sugar production to subsidized foreign industries that break international trade law and employ child and slave labor.
His clients hope Congress will reward these bad actors to the detriment of U.S. farmers and workers so they can save a couple of pennies a pound on ingredient costs.
That’s terrible policy. Made in America means something to most reasonable people. Too bad D.C. attack dogs like Pyle aren’t paid to be reasonable.
Phillip Hayes represents the American Sugar Alliance, based in Arlington, Va.
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Congressman Mike Thompson (D-CA-5) is in the pocket of the nation's beet and cane sugar cartels!
Thompson continually votes to maintain the U.S. Sugar program. Why? It is really quite simple, Congressman Thompson received well over $96,000 in political donations from the sugar cartels since coming to Washington in 1999.
Thanks to Rep. Thompson and others, the U.S. Sugar Program continues. The Sugar Program is a Soviet-style command and control scheme that restricts planting and imports. This inflates the price of sugar in the United States to almost double the world price. So, when you go to the store to buy a snack cake or anything sweetened, you pay more!
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the program means Americans pay $3.5 billion every year in increased grocery costs, which breaks down to of upwards of $50 per family.
In Rep. Thompson's 18 years in office, he repeatedly voted against sugar reform costing each California family an additional $900 for groceries.
You have to ask yourself, is my Congressman really fighting to make life better, or is he just another politician in it for the campaign contributions?
It's time for Congressman Thompson to step up and end this costly government giveaway to the cartels!
The Independent Bakers' Association is an international trade association that fights to protect the interests of mostly family owned wholesale bakers and allied trades. For more information about IBA and sugar program corruption, visit www.IBAbaker.com.
Nicholas A. Pyle is president of the Independent Bakers' Association.
Thompson continually votes to maintain the U.S. Sugar program. Why? It is really quite simple, Congressman Thompson received well over $96,000 in political donations from the sugar cartels since coming to Washington in 1999.
Thanks to Rep. Thompson and others, the U.S. Sugar Program continues. The Sugar Program is a Soviet-style command and control scheme that restricts planting and imports. This inflates the price of sugar in the United States to almost double the world price. So, when you go to the store to buy a snack cake or anything sweetened, you pay more!
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the program means Americans pay $3.5 billion every year in increased grocery costs, which breaks down to of upwards of $50 per family.
In Rep. Thompson's 18 years in office, he repeatedly voted against sugar reform costing each California family an additional $900 for groceries.
You have to ask yourself, is my Congressman really fighting to make life better, or is he just another politician in it for the campaign contributions?
It's time for Congressman Thompson to step up and end this costly government giveaway to the cartels!
The Independent Bakers' Association is an international trade association that fights to protect the interests of mostly family owned wholesale bakers and allied trades. For more information about IBA and sugar program corruption, visit www.IBAbaker.com.
Nicholas A. Pyle is president of the Independent Bakers' Association.
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The tax bill that the Republicans are "Trumpeting" right now is an outrage with its permanent harmful changes to our economy.
The transfer of wealth from have-nots to the upper 1 percent is a crime, not an accomplishment.
No governing ability went into this bill, just add-on measures that benefit the real estate corporations with $414 billion proposed for large developers. This will result in at least 1.5 trillion dollars in hits to our national debt.
Obviously the top one-tenth of one percent of the US population will benefit and will forget about the rest of us.
Someday when our children ask us how this happened, we will have to try to explain it, but it is pure greed.
It is not acceptable, but there is little to be done since the bill was crafted in secret closed partisan hearings and tweaked only to benefit more greedy legislators.
Very sad developments and certainly nothing to be proud of as basic human health concerns, schools and infrastructure are being cut back so heavily.
Ellen Karnowski lives in Kelseyville, Calif.
The transfer of wealth from have-nots to the upper 1 percent is a crime, not an accomplishment.
No governing ability went into this bill, just add-on measures that benefit the real estate corporations with $414 billion proposed for large developers. This will result in at least 1.5 trillion dollars in hits to our national debt.
Obviously the top one-tenth of one percent of the US population will benefit and will forget about the rest of us.
Someday when our children ask us how this happened, we will have to try to explain it, but it is pure greed.
It is not acceptable, but there is little to be done since the bill was crafted in secret closed partisan hearings and tweaked only to benefit more greedy legislators.
Very sad developments and certainly nothing to be proud of as basic human health concerns, schools and infrastructure are being cut back so heavily.
Ellen Karnowski lives in Kelseyville, Calif.
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Thank you to everyone who attended my book signing and reading Dec. 7 for “Broken, Tales of a Titanium Cowgirl,” at Lake Event Design.
I was so touched by the incredible support of my book, and thanks to the generosity of the fine folks of our community we raised money for new fencing to go to Sonoma Action For Equine Rescue (SAFER, https://www.saferhorse.com/).
This money will help our neighbors who lost their homes in the Redwood/Pottery Valley fire and need help getting their horses back with them. Helping these horses return home helps keep any more horses from needing new homes. Please consider SAFER as a wonderful way to help local horses and horse owners in need.
Guests enjoyed the beautifully decorated space at Lake Event Design. Thank you to Beth Havrilla for her gracious support of this event, to Laura Jernigan for her friendship and organization of my very first book reading, to Six Sigma Ranch and Winery for their generous donation of wine, to Christine DePasquale for the delicious desserts, to the Blue Wing Saloon for the beautiful cheeses, and to all of our friends and guests who donated so generously to this fundraiser.
If you are looking for a new challenge for the new year, I highly recommend Christine’s upcoming course “Food and Wine Pairing” Wednesday evenings at Mendocino College, beginning Jan. 24. Christine trained at the Culinary Institute of America New York and is the manager of the Blue Wing Saloon.
Michelle Scully lives in Lakeport, Calif., and is the author of “Broken, Tales of a Titanium Cowgirl,” available through online bookstores.
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