I can see why Comrade Clayton is enamored with Robert Reich and quotes him all the time. They are both socialist dwarves who have never worked a real job in their miserable lives.
[Luckily for the rest of us, Reich is in his 70s and will hopefully be dead soon so he will no longer be polluting discussions with his socialist bullshit. Unless he is like a Tolkein dwarf and lives up to 300 years. Then, god help us all.]
I’m curious, Comrade Clayton: where do you sell YOUR beef? You ARE a rancher, after all. You have been promoting that charade for years now. Are you just one of those foolish ranchers mentioned by Reich (a useless economist who knows zero about ranching or anything else) who bends over and takes it from Big Meat (and I don’t mean Beto)? Or do you look elsewhere to sell your phantom ranch products? Like at farmers markets or on-line direct to consumer?
For instance:
When I used to WORK at the Texas Farmer’s Market (Lakeline Mall in Cedar Park on Saturday and Mueller on Sunday), there was PLENTY of meat for sale from REAL ranchers. Just ask for Amy and George Greer out of Brady Texas. Pretty good steaks.
People can also buy direct on-line from places like Moink….which I ALSO happen to do now and then. Though it is tough to beat the pork chops, bacon and bacon-wrapped filets at M&M right here in town.
I’m wondering, Comrade Clayton, why YOU don’t sell your meat from your ranch at a local farmers market also? The Lampasas Farmers Market is LITERALLY less than 3 blocks from your house every Saturday and starts at 9am.
I myself had to get up around 6am in the dark to load product to get to Lakeline Mall by 8am, which pretty much sucked after working all week. YOU, on the other hand, could roll out of bed at 8:45 and still be to the market on time. Why don’t you do that?
There are only a couple of reasons I can think of why you DON’T sell meat from your “ranch” at the local market:
#1 – you don’t have any products to sell because you are not a rancher. I put this probability at 99%
#2 – you are too lazy to get up early on Saturday morning and transport all the coolers and tents and shit to the market to sell your ranch products. I put this probability at less than 1%.
#3 – you sell your products to Big Meat and are part of the problem you profess to hate. I put this probability at less than 1% also.
