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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: The Village Idiot on July 19, 2009, 12:54:57 AM
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RedState
http://www.redstate.com/blog/2009/07/18/2-pounds-of-ham-at-595-600-a-pound
recovery.gov
http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/contracts-recipient-summary&id=12-AG3J14120297196&mode=details&primeid=27
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Transparency--ain't it wonderful?
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Response to Drudge Item on Recovery Act Funding
Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack
"Through the Recovery Act, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has made $100 million available to the states for The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), which acquires food that is distributed to local organizations that assist the needy – including food banks, food pantries, and soup kitchens.
The Recovery Act funds referenced in press reports allowed states to purchase ham, cheese and dairy products for these food banks, soup kitchens and food pantries that provide assistance to people who otherwise do not have access to food. This program will help reduce hunger of those hardest hit by the current economic recession.
The references to "2 pound frozen ham sliced" are to the sizes of the packaging. Press reports suggesting that the Recovery Act spent $1.191 million to buy "2 pounds of ham" are wrong. In fact, the contract in question purchased 760,000 pounds of ham for $1.191m, at a cost of approximately $1.50 per pound. In terms of the dairy purchase referenced, USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) purchased 837,936 pounds of mozzarella cheese and 4,039,200 pounds of processed cheese.
While the principal purpose of these expenditures is to provide food to those hardest hit by these tough times, the purchases also provide a modest economic benefit of benefiting Americans working at food retailers, manufacturers and transportation companies as well as the farmers and ranchers who produce our food supply."
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2009/07/0322.xml
How many millions of dollars went into putting up that website that wrongly listed only 2 pounds of ham?
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Anyone else getting dizzy from the spin? Gee, Secretary Ballsack, how difficult would it have been to actually list the QUANTITY of 2-lb packages if in fact such was the case?
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I loved how quick Drudge put up;
Gov't paid $1.50/lb.
Food Lion $.79/lb.
hahahahahahaha
KC
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That better be the best 2 pound ham ever.