CWB Paradox

[TOM4CWB]

Incognito;

THis about says... what I haven't been able to express:

...Mr. Ritter does not actually believe in sovereign individual rights, or the right to choose.

He believes in false "collective rights," absolute democracy and the tyranny of the majority.

These are false rights, because in the case of the Wheat Board they violate one of the most fundamental of human rights, the right to one's own property.

It is also the height of hypocrisy to then demand that the democratic choice of the other 147 countries in the WTO is irrelevant in these discussions, that somehow mystically outside of western Canada the definition of choice reverses and the Board now has a sovereign right to exist as an entity unto itself."

Well stated... I had never seen this hypocrisy... explained this well... in plain words... knowing and seeing the rest of the world's view of us as Canadians.

The comment on taxpayers paying for the interest costs on CWB churning... also rings true...

After charging inflated interest charges (on the Billions in bad debt owed)... for decades... the CDN Governemt then writes off the bad CWB debt (because the debtor country has no hope of paying this scheme off); charging it to the Canadian Taxpayer.

How can we reconcile all of this... and justify it?

[malleefarmer]

Tom thought you might like to know in our rural weekly a Deanna Allen points out how grat the CWB is and its single desk and its a shame the aust single desk is under pressure when nearly all farmers support it well according to her,she blames the US Wheat Associates for creating all the ruckus,and debate.

Seems to me here on agriville about 60% support chnge or free markets and 40% support status quo.

ps the Managing Director Andrew Linberg resigned today from AWB after more damning evidence.
Even the AWB themselves are talking marketing changes from within there own organization whilst wanting to keep the single desk so one can only wonder what the brains trust at awb has come up with this time

cheers wheat is getting a nice little run up on futures markets!!

[charliep]

Sorry for asking too many questions.

How does the AWB get feedback from its membership (perhaps shareholders as well)? An annual business meeting? A delegate system that supports the local director? AWB employees who work directly with farmers?

What role are farmers given in influencing changes in direction/policy for the AWB? Only through their directors? Through farm organizations/commissions?

[malleefarmer]

The awb gets its feedback via state based farmer membership organizations.
problem is these organizations are basically just mouthpieces for the monopoly marketers or put it another way the Aust Barley Board and Aust Wheat Board sponsor these organizations and basically keep them afloat due to falling membership numbers which is of course cause these farmer organziations continue to support single desk whereas at the grass roots level support is waning