Day: February 27, 2025

Finally An Answer To Rising Egg Prices!

Most everyone has been hit by the high cost of eggs in the past year and the question has been…..when will something be done about the high prices?

This is the Trump Administration’s answer to solving the ever rising egg prices here in the US….

President Trump’s agriculture secretary announced Wednesday that her department is working with the Department of Government Efficiency “to cut hundreds of millions of dollars of wasteful spending” that will be used to help bring down the retail price of eggs. “We will repurpose some of those dollars by investing in long-term solutions to avian flu,” a major driver of the egg shortage, Brooke Rollins wrote in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. In January, the average price for large, Grade A eggs in American cities hit a record $4.95 per dozen.

Agriculture Department will spend as much as $1 billion on the campaign, Rollins said in laying out the plan’s five steps. The first $500 million is allocated to help with biosecurity measures at poultry farms—steps to stop the flu’s spread. In addition, $400 million is set aside for relief to farmers whose flocks have been hit the flu, the Washington Post reports. Another $100 million will go toward developing vaccines and therapeutics for laying chickens. “This should help reduce the need to ‘depopulate’ flocks, which means killing chickens on a farm where there’s an outbreak,” Rollins wrote.

The fourth step, she said, is reducing the regulation of producers, including facilitating the raising of backyard chickens. The last move Rollins listed is temporarily increasing the number of imported eggs, possibly raising purchases from Turkey from the current 70 million a year to as many as 420 million this year, per the Post. A farmers group, United Egg Producers, welcomed Rollins’ plan. The secretary wrote that while the shortage won’t disappear overnight, “we’re confident that it will restore stability to the egg market.”

Just how will this bring down prices?

Trump is considering a 25% tariff on products from the EU so where will we import eggs from that is not effected by these tariffs?

To remind everyone tariffs are paid by the importer and passed onto the consumer in price increases….so again how will this idea bring down prices?

So just how will this lower the price for we will be dealing with the same middlemen that are raping huge profits on the backs of consumers

How can we as consumers be guaranteed that the eggs we import will be safe for they may come from countries with little to no oversight?

And another question why has bird flu hit the US the hardest?….I have not seen a report that it is crisis level elsewhere in the world.

Let me say here that while I do not like this proposal to end high egg prices it is a damn sight better than what the Dems have offered…..an investigation into egg producers….the investigation is needed but it will take a year or better to complete and what will happen to prices in that lag time?

Please share your thoughts on this hair brain idea.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Waiting On A ‘Gold Card’

This is not the same thing as your Visa gold card….this is in reference to the US visa that the Trump Administration is selling….you are surely heard the term ‘green card’…..well this is a visa that rich people can pay to enter the US.

President Trump teased a new visa program Tuesday with something “like a green card,” but his favorite color: gold. Trump said the gold card, with “a higher level of sophistication,” would offer “very high-level people” a new “route to citizenship”—for the cost of $5 million, per the New York Times. “Wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card” and receiving “green card privileges,” said Trump, who spoke to reporters while signing various executive orders, per CNN.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said “the Trump gold card” would replace the EB-5 visa program, under which investors and their families can receive permanent residence if they make a significant investment in a US business that creates or preserves 10 permanent full-time jobs for US workers. Trump said the wealthy foreigners buying gold cards would be “people that create jobs,” without giving details, per the Times.

“They’ll have to go through vetting, of course,” Lutnick said, per CNN, “to make sure they’re wonderful world-class global citizens.” Asked if a Russian oligarch would be eligible, Trump replied, “Yeah, possibly. I know some Russian oligarchs that are nice people.” “I think they can afford $5 million,” he continued. He predicted the government would be able to sell a million or more gold cards starting in about two weeks. “If you add up the numbers, they’re pretty good,” he said.

A new way for the rich to come here and become a parasite on the American system.

The precedes would go to pay off the national debt….

President Donald Trump believes he can pay off America’s $36 trillion national debt by charging rich immigrants $5 million for a gold card—which has green card privileges “plus a route to citizenship.”

President Trump made the impromptu announcement in the Oval Office yesterday, telling reporters: “Remember the words gold card.”

The president said he had planned to make the announcement next week but seized the opportunity to share the news while signing executive orders on Tuesday.

As a result, details of what the gold card will entail are still sparse, but the Republican politician said: “Wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card. They’ll be wealthy and they’ll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people.

They will come and pay lots of taxes……who believes that fairy tale?

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“lego ergo scribo”

First Meeting Of The ‘Minds’

Yesterday was the very first cabinet meeting for the new administration….and this is how it went…

President Trump held his first Cabinet meeting of his second term on Tuesday—and a lot of the talking was done by somebody who wasn’t seated at the table. Trump asked Elon Musk, who is not an official Cabinet member, to discuss his work with DOGE. “Is anyone unhappy with Elon? If you are, we’ll throw them out of here,” Trump joked, per the Wall Street Journal. More:

  • DOGE. Trump praised Musk’s email asking federal workers to justify their jobs, which some agency chiefs have resisted. Musk described it as a “pulse check,” not a performance review, and said the email was sent with the president’s approval, the New York Times reports. Musk praised Trump for putting together the “best Cabinet ever.” The Times reports that Musk, who said he was confident he could cut $1 trillion from the federal budget, dominated the first part of the meeting. Trump later discussed a wide range of subjects.
  • Ukraine. Trump opened the meeting by confirming that Volodymyr Zelensky will visit the White House on Friday to sign a deal involving Ukrainian minerals and other resources. He later said that the deal would not include security guarantees, the Guardian reports. He said Vladimir Putin would have to make some concessions, but Ukraine should “forget about” joining NATO. “I think that’s probably the reason the whole thing started,” he said.
  • Tariffs. Trump said he plans to hit the European Union with 25% tariffs on the import of cars, among other goods, the Times reports. “The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States,” he said. Trump also criticized Canada, saying, “Without us, Canada can’t make it. I say Canada should be our 51st state.”
  • Measles. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, was asked about the death of a child in the Texas measles outbreak. He described the outbreak as “not unusual” and said his agency is “watching” the outbreak, without providing specifics, the AP reports.
  • Afghanistan. Trump said all the generals involved in the US withdrawal from Afghanistan should be fired, the Hill reports. “I’m not going to tell this man what to do, but I will say that if I had his place, I’d fire every single one of them,” he said, gesturing to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Hegseth said the Pentagon is conducting a “complete review.”

Now after reading this short summary you can see why I enclosed the word minds thusly…..

The tariff thing is interesting soon the whole world will be under a Trump tariff and things will get expensive and out of reach for most Americans….but maybe that is the plan all along.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”