The CWB Money-Tree

[northfarmer]

Vader, you are the ridiculous one and it is your logic that is undefensible on this one....

do not assume you speak for me, and that is certain, and all farmers when you justify all the ways the CWB spends our money as being for our common good...

the role of the CWB, I thought, was to extract farmers the best possible net returns for our DA grains, and return that net value of of those sales through our pool accounts....

let me decide if I want to donate to CIGI, the U of M. or whomever, or better yet let the politicians I pay taxes to make these decisions for the common good of farmers.....


Why could not these funds, if they cannot make it to the hands of the entitled producers, get redistrbuted to the pool accounts.....what the CWB beuracracy has a hard time with this?.......this is not their money, it belongs to the producers......

[lesm]

I am just amazed that the CWB socialist institution has managed to excist all these years with so little resistance until these last few years. My non-farming friends have been following this debate lately and are appalled at how this system works(or not works!)and how we are treated in this supposedly democratic country. I thank our PM and our Ag Minister for having the insight to challenge this archaic system and finally make us all equal members of this society. I am so sick and tired of the propaganda spewed out by the CWB supporters that I have decided to place my vote to option #3-total abolition of the CWB. I had to farm under their ideals for the last 30 years with no choice and now I believe it is my turn.

[kamichel]

Vader you said the CWB spent years trying to get the checks to the farmers who have not cashed them. What have they done besides nothing so that after so many years the law states the money is the property of the CWB. Well maybe the money is really the property of banking institutions that have forclosed on the farms before the interims and finals arrive so why cash a check in that case.

[wd9]

Parsley and others, is it that the funding is not transparent or is it that you feel CIGI has no value and should not be funded?

[silverback]

Nice work Parsley.

Sure would be nice to know the dollar value of those items that have no price tag.

[Vader]

northfarmer,

If the money belongs to producers then which producers? I would classify this money as "unallocated earnings". This is not money which was "earned" by producers. The money will have been held on deposit for a number of years before there can be any consideration of removing it. The producers who were entitled to this money may no longer be involved in farming and if they are they may not be growing the same grains from which the revenue originated.

What makes you think that you are entitled to someone else's money?

At least by spending it on Universitie, research etc. everybody benefits

[Fransisco]

There is a term I heard the other day that describes this perfectly. It's called the 'flypaper effect' the money never gets to where its supposed to(farmers in this case) because it stick's to something else along the way.

[kamichel]

Northfarmer distribute all grain revenue back to farmers like they claim. That would be honest.

[Fransisco]

Vader-"What makes you think that you are entitled to someone else's money?"

Talk about a you've got to be kidding moment. Pot meet kettle, topic of discussion the colour black.

[Incognito]

Obviously people, redistribution of farmers money, is for the gooooooooooooooooood of the industry, so why should farmers get their money back. How can the CWB peddle influence and affluence if it gives the farmers all the money back.

Hence the reality, the CWB serves the industry better than the farmers. Gotta love the CWB!