<story><title>U.S. chicken prices may have been artificially inflated for years</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/17/internal-document-supports-argument-that-u-s-chicken-prices-have-been-artificially-inflated-for-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>This is classic red state governance.&lt;p&gt;Strip the organization of resources over time, put politically appointed people in charge of work that should be performed by civil servants, and create a situation where the inmates run the asylum.&lt;p&gt;Even if nobody applies pressure, there&amp;#x27;s an implied threat of reprisal when the an appointed former garden blogger turned director of whatever gives an undesired answer. That job should be a civil service gig protected from direct reprisal.&lt;p&gt;Compare this ridiculous methodology compared to something more robust like the CPI calculations performed by the US DOL.</text></item><item><author>jackmoore</author><text>“We trust the companies we work with,” Alec Asbridge, director of regulatory compliance at Georgia Department of Agriculture, said earlier this month. “We don’t see any reason they would submit information that wasn’t truthful.”&lt;p&gt;I feel like this statement makes Asbridge unsuited for his job as director of regulatory compliance. Willful obliviousness implies a conflict of interest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WillPostForFood</author><text>From 1872 to 2002 Georgia elected 37 Democrat Governors in a row. The Georgia dock chicken pricing goes back at least 56 years. So you might as well call it classic blue state governance.</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. chicken prices may have been artificially inflated for years</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/17/internal-document-supports-argument-that-u-s-chicken-prices-have-been-artificially-inflated-for-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>This is classic red state governance.&lt;p&gt;Strip the organization of resources over time, put politically appointed people in charge of work that should be performed by civil servants, and create a situation where the inmates run the asylum.&lt;p&gt;Even if nobody applies pressure, there&amp;#x27;s an implied threat of reprisal when the an appointed former garden blogger turned director of whatever gives an undesired answer. That job should be a civil service gig protected from direct reprisal.&lt;p&gt;Compare this ridiculous methodology compared to something more robust like the CPI calculations performed by the US DOL.</text></item><item><author>jackmoore</author><text>“We trust the companies we work with,” Alec Asbridge, director of regulatory compliance at Georgia Department of Agriculture, said earlier this month. “We don’t see any reason they would submit information that wasn’t truthful.”&lt;p&gt;I feel like this statement makes Asbridge unsuited for his job as director of regulatory compliance. Willful obliviousness implies a conflict of interest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Yeah, Georgia, what a shit hole. With its triple-AAA bond rating, below-average debt per capita, and solvent pension system!</text></comment>