Re: PING! Michael

Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
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On 2024-11-28, Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:
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Since you're fixated on food, here's the food we import from Canada,
in *billions*:
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$4.13 meat
$3.13 fish
$3.05 edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
$2.71 vegetable, fruit, nut food preparations
$2.10 miscellaneous edible preparations
$2.04 cocoa and cocoa preprations
$1.98 live animals
$1.72 cereals
$1.51 beverages, spirits, and vinegar
$1.17 meat, fish, and seafood preparations
$1.04 sugars and sugar confectionery
$0.83 oil seed, oleagic fruits, grain, seed, fruits
$0.60 coffee, tea, mate, and spices
$0.59 edible fruits, nuts, peel of citrus fruit, melons
$0.28 dairy products, eggs, honey, edible products

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Without totaling it all up, that looks to be about 25 billion,
or spit in a bucket. We piss away 3 billion a day on national debt
interest, because elected officials and their minions are so good
at money management and the concept of debt to income.

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Ayn Rand would note this is what you get when governments favor the
least productive or even destructive elements of society, while creating
difficulties and denouncing those who are productive - and all the while
expecting the *productive* to pick up the bills...