Do We REALLY Need Potato Chip Grants?
If potato chips can't survive in the marketplace without government assistance...well, you think you'd look around and see flat abs and "paleo" snacks everywhere. But, the last time I was in a grocery store, I saw asses the size of Kansas, and that was just on the little kids.
yet, our government is taking our taxpayer dollars and handing them over to a poor beleaguered potato chip company. I mean, how can a potato chip company expect to sell delicious, crispy potato chips to the tofu and bean sprout-scarfing American public without taxpayer assistance?
Jennifer Gustavson writes for the Suffolk Times:
North Fork Potato Chips won a federal grant last week and is now planning to expand its marketing reach, company officials said Thursday.Carol Sidor, who owns the 170-acre Sidor Farm in Mattituck with her husband, Martin, said she's "very pleased and excited" about winning a $49,990 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and hopes the additional funding will help her family business increase its sales.
"Getting the big contracts is a hard job," Ms. Sidor said. "I'm sure this will be a big help. We wouldn't be able to do it otherwise."
There are a lot of things I can't do without government assistance, and I have a handy-dandy solution for that: I either raise money to do them -- or I don't do them.
Ms. Sidor said the federal funding will go toward updating North Fork Potato Chips' website and brochures. The company has also started working with Northport-based marketing firm Slightly Mad Communications to help boost sales.
I need to boost my sales and make some brochures to sell my syndicated column. Is this an endeavor that we should all now consider taxpayer-fundable? Because if it's good to go for the potato chip lady it should be good to go for the syndicated advice lady.
(How did we get to a point where this sounds normal enough to people that it actually goes through?)
via Jacob Sullum
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