Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Let’s Talk ‘Banana Farmers’

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Anonymous said...

As usual a dumbed down liberal living on the plantation who believes all that is spewed from the American media covering for that abject socialist failure - Barrack Obama.

a whole book - written by a liberal that was on the New York Times best sellers list - shows that the failure of the American banking system aside from the greed of the bankers was MAINLY caused by liberal Democrats forcing banks and Fannie and Freddie to give sub prime mortgages to people who could not afford to service those loans.

The massive amount of loans built us a housing bubble where so many had their houses values way above the real market value.
When the brown stuff hit the fan and people could not pay the mortgages the whole house of cards came tumbling down.

Blame Democrat election money bundlers Raines and Johnson at Freddie and Fannie who made hundreds of millions on the banking failure. Another set of liberal elites fooling the "masses" about their real agenda.

Blame Democratic Congressman Barney Frank who massaged the whole process and said nothing was wrong when Republicans tried to get the Democratic controlled Congress to examine the state of the mortgage industry.

they called the Republicans racist because most of the recipients were African Americans.

So you propagandized liberal/socialist African on the plantation should get real and study how Democrats/liberals/socialists are destroying Europe and American and our African communities.

March 1, 2012 at 3:05 PM
Anonymous said...

Additionally the Bankers who were involved in the process. Guess who they gave most of their money to during the 2008 election -- would you beleive - Barack Obama and the Democrats !! Surprise !

March 1, 2012 at 3:07 PM
Anonymous said...

While the approach taken by the author is a valid one, one only has to look at the number of committees, taskforces and lastly but mostly the quantity of money that has been spent on plans in Agriculture in St Lucia to realise that the problem is with the implementation not the planning.

There are organisations and individuals in St Lucia that should be replicated as the "new models of farming".

Why are we not looking at the price tag for import of fruit and vegetable to the tourist industry? Import substitution is the "low hanging fruit" of agriculture.

The profit made and jobs created in the rural communities far outways the loss of jobs in a banana industry that has been failing and decreasing in market share for 20 years. It is well known that the cost of production of bananas in the Windward Islands is three times that of Costa Rica...... At the same time when there are no tomatoes, lettuce in the supermarkets or locally grown in the Hotels.

We saw millions wasted of the SFA money that went on plans and training and programs... to no avail..

PUT MONEY INTO THE SMALL FARMERS AND COOPS ...INCREASE DOMESTIC PRODUCTION, NOT MILLIONS MORE INTO MORE BANANA TRUSTS AND TECHNOCRATS...

March 2, 2012 at 2:25 PM

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