And The Agriculture Will Minister Itself

18 Replies to “And The Agriculture Will Minister Itself”

1. Well they sure know how to shovel out the Liebrano BS though.
   But you’re right, none of their stuff will make any plant nor critter grow one iota more.
   Just their fat cat elite indexed pensions, and that’s all they care about
   The rest is just Kabuki theatre for the sheeple

2. Wot? You mean your combine doesn’t have a fax machine?? Philistines!
   I hear some of them are pretty fancy.

3. Combine, commune, so easy to misunderstand. Especially if you are some ‘elite’ end product of four or more years of intense indoctrination while you pass through the bowels of whackademia.

4. Possibly some of the people working in the Minister’s office were from some country where they never heard of a combine.

5. A Combine is a Western Canadian version of Bombardier’s C-series and it actually does work, also a Combine does not receive faxes but sends taxes.

6. “Combining”, to the urban policy setters, is when Whole Foods gives you a free head of organic Romain with a purchase of their store brand salad dressing.

7. “Combining”, to the urban policy setters, is when Whole Foods gives you a free head of organic Romain with a purchase of their store brand salad dressing.

8. Talk to a federal government employee about their pay system. Going on 3 years they complain that the ‘new’ system brought in under the Harper government does not work and pays some people more than it should and does not pay others. When I talked to a fed middle manager I suggested that there were many off the shelf payroll systems that could have been used not a custom design job that did not work. “You don’t understand. The federal system has multiple union contracts that have to be observed which make this all very complicated.”
   IMHO this standard bureaucratic reply is simply a cover for a massive taxpayer rip off. A whole new budgeting effort has been instituted to ‘compensate’ those who are being shorted. Nice premiums I suspect for the ‘pain and suffering’. Meanwhile, I am sure, thousands are employed to tread water to ensure this gravy train continues. You won’t see a serious expose on the CBC Evening News on this one.

9. Unlikely it’s the Minister, more likely a staff weenie who is 22 years old and degree in Arts. Even then the Ministers may know nothing about their ministry or what it does and operates from a 3 page briefing note on every subject.

10. But they have the smartest people in their cabinet and by default they will hire the smartest people ! I know it’s true because CBC told me so ! Lol

11. Arts? Nah, too qualified. Maybe a “studies” degree and that person probably got that job because Starbucks wasn’t hiring.

12. This shouldn’t surprise anyone. The government’s sole role is ‘governmenting’. Their focus is completely on themselves.

13. In addition, the “rules” are sacred and must never be questioned. The government drones simply make sure that they are followed and that the associated paperwork is filled out properly. If a citizen doesn’t understand those rules, it’s that person’s fault. Explaining them to the great unwashed is not in a government munchkin’s job description.
    I found that out soon after I started settling my father’s estate.

14. Half the folks who work for the federal MoAg wouldn’t know a New Holland from a New Jersey. They wouldn’t know a f—kin’ John Deere from a f—kin’ mule deer. They wouldn’t know a motherf—kin’ straw chopper from a motherf—kin’ news and weather chopper. They wouldn’t know a gawddam polled Angus from gawddamn pulled pork.
    The Canadian federal government. Stupid people playing stupid games.

15. I knew what a combine was around 8 or 10 yrs of age. the local autumn festival had them all lined up with the sales staff ready with a pitch.

16. A related concept: Capitalism directs resources into the hands of those who are competent to deal with them, while socialism does the opposite.

17. it is government, government only exists for government.

18. Speaking of farming, why are farmers and equipment manufacturers engaged in a suicide pact? Everything just keeps getting bigger; when it’s big enough that only one combine harvester will be needed for the entire continent, who is going to buy it, and which one gets the sale?
    At John Deere, they don’t sell or make anything that costs less than a full half million. Basically, if you don’t farm an entire township (36 sections) by yourself, there is nothing made in the last 30 years that you could buy and turn a profit with.
    One guy buys a sprayer, all his neighbors contract him to spray for them too. One guy buys a seedhawk, neighbors contract their seeding. Trucking contracted out, harvesting, seeding, spaying, …
    I guess the endgame is one guy is the the only farmer on the continent, and he runs all the self driving machines out of a control center in Langley. And deploys robots to fix things. And self driving trucks come to take the stuff to automated food processing plants, and all these robots drive past millions of starving people who can’t find $500,000 minimum wage jobs.