Empire of the Pigs
Erika Ruiz
ENGL-101
August17, 2009
“The Empire of the pigs”
“The Empire of the Pigs focuses on corporate welfare and government spending policy. This article is to inform, about the long term liabilities that government faced by spending funds on corporate welfare. The issue that is covered in this article is how Seaboard gets subsidies by the federal and local government to improve the counties and how that affects the tax payers. This article will discuss this issues in four sections, first the introduction of Seaboard plants in Minnesota. Then how tax payer gets affected by subsidies companies. It then talks about how seaboard affected lives around the farms. The end of the article tells us how the Bresky’s family made their fortune. The first section, “THIS LITTLE PIGGY SKIPED TOWN,” introduces the Seaboard Corporation and their plant in Minnesota. In Albert Lea, Wilson had hard times and began to cut salaries and employees. Later on, sold the plant to Farmstead food, which ends up closing because of the loss of its biggest customer. In the 1990’s Seaboard negotiate a deal with the city for funds to reopen the plant. As Seaboard created 35,000 employments, also encountered pollution problems that cost the federal government and state 34 million on a sewage plant. Also the city contributes $ 1 million for new road, parking lot and water lines for the plant. Albert Lea didn’t have enough workers to run the plant, some of the workers from Albert Lea had move out of the city, some had already retired, and some didn’t want to work for Seaboard. Then Seaboard recruit Hispanic laborer from other areas of the U.S. and Central America. Another problem that Seaboard encountered was the waste accumulation; it was so much that the city runs out of storage capacity. When Seaboard saw that they couldn’t solve the problem, they decide to look for another town or state. Even though that Albert Lea give Seaboard another incentive of $12.5 million to keep the
ENGL-101
August17, 2009
“The Empire of the pigs”
“The Empire of the Pigs focuses on corporate welfare and government spending policy. This article is to inform, about the long term liabilities that government faced by spending funds on corporate welfare. The issue that is covered in this article is how Seaboard gets subsidies by the federal and local government to improve the counties and how that affects the tax payers. This article will discuss this issues in four sections, first the introduction of Seaboard plants in Minnesota. Then how tax payer gets affected by subsidies companies. It then talks about how seaboard affected lives around the farms. The end of the article tells us how the Bresky’s family made their fortune. The first section, “THIS LITTLE PIGGY SKIPED TOWN,” introduces the Seaboard Corporation and their plant in Minnesota. In Albert Lea, Wilson had hard times and began to cut salaries and employees. Later on, sold the plant to Farmstead food, which ends up closing because of the loss of its biggest customer. In the 1990’s Seaboard negotiate a deal with the city for funds to reopen the plant. As Seaboard created 35,000 employments, also encountered pollution problems that cost the federal government and state 34 million on a sewage plant. Also the city contributes $ 1 million for new road, parking lot and water lines for the plant. Albert Lea didn’t have enough workers to run the plant, some of the workers from Albert Lea had move out of the city, some had already retired, and some didn’t want to work for Seaboard. Then Seaboard recruit Hispanic laborer from other areas of the U.S. and Central America. Another problem that Seaboard encountered was the waste accumulation; it was so much that the city runs out of storage capacity. When Seaboard saw that they couldn’t solve the problem, they decide to look for another town or state. Even though that Albert Lea give Seaboard another incentive of $12.5 million to keep the