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Posted by on April 16, 2008, 2:52 pm
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:14:04 -0700 (PDT), mkirsch1@rochester.rr.com
wrote:
>On Mar 29, 6:12 pm, websu...@cox.net wrote:
>> And don't get me started on crop
>> subsidies for the farmers themselves. It's a racket.
>
>Don't get started. You wouldn't have a clue what you're talking about.
>
>Without the government subsidizing our farms, you wouldn't have
>anything to eat. For 30-odd years, farmers were receiving the same
>amount of money for their crops, while the price of equipment, fuel,
>fertilizer all rose with inflation... and that was WITH the government
>subsidies! It's only recently with the fuel crunch that the prices of
>crops have risen to where they should've been all along.
>
>You can't have your cheap food and no government subsidies to farmers.
>It's one or the other. Either quit complaining or pay for your food!
Which farmers are you tallking about -- the classic struggling
American farm family, or the agribusiness corporate giants with their
tentacles into Congress, "stealing" water that was priced for family
farms, never for those behemoths.
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