{"id":31392,"date":"2012-11-16T21:06:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T04:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/gimme-some-sugar-sugar.html"},"modified":"2012-11-16T21:06:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T04:06:12","slug":"gimme-some-sugar-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/gimme-some-sugar-sugar.html","title":{"rendered":"Gimme some sugar, Sugar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union workers striking\u00a0to maintain their already-cut salaries? \u00a0Dirty commie taker socialists!<\/p>\n<p>Sugar companies relying on protectionist import restrictions and tarriffs\u00a0to keep American sugar prices twice that of the world market? \u00a0Supporting good ol&#39;\u00a0American agri-business!<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; which one actually did Twinkies in?<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjperry.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/sugar-tariffs-cost-americans-386.html\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/www.mjperry.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/sugar-tariffs-cost-americans-386.html<\/a> for more on domestic vs. world sugar prices.)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Business\/2012\/1116\/Did-Congress-kill-the-Twinkie-The-tariff-tale-behind-the-Hostess-demise.-video'>Did Congress kill the Twinkie? The tariff tale behind the Hostess demise.(+video)<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSince 1934, Congress has supported sugar trade tariffs. In a sign of the power of the sugar lobby, Hostess picked unions, not the lobby, to fight when it had to cut costs to stay in business.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/XfKBfjPEeSg' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/XfKBfjPEeSg' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union workers striking\u00a0to maintain their already-cut salaries? \u00a0Dirty commie taker socialists! Sugar companies relying on protectionist import restrictions and tarriffs\u00a0to keep American sugar prices twice that of the world market? \u00a0Supporting good ol&#39;\u00a0American agri-business! So &#8230; which one actually did Twinkies in? (http:\/\/www.mjperry.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/sugar-tariffs-cost-americans-386.html for more on domestic vs. world sugar prices.) Embedded Link Did Congress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/gimme-some-sugar-sugar.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gimme some sugar, Sugar!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38777,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/16\/sugar-sugar-everywhere.html","url_meta":{"origin":31392,"position":0},"title":"Sugar, sugar, everywhere","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Sep-13 1:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This reminds me of a science fair project my daughter did, where it turned out most people didn't realize that that yummy granola cereal and those healthy raisin bran cereals had more sugar than a lot of \"kids\" cereals.Reshared post from +Les JenkinsConsidering how maligned Krispy Kreme doughnuts are for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14087,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/10\/leftover-sugar-cookies-from-ma.html","url_meta":{"origin":31392,"position":1},"title":"Leftover sugar cookies &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Mar-09 12:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Leftover sugar cookies from Margie Gras weekend? 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