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To: Willie Green

Killing subsidies is a HUGE problem to the TINY FARM farmers of europe. These are small land owners whose small farms are just as important to them as our own farms/homes.

Many have zero reasonable means of keeping their family farm and obtaining other employment. IOW there is NOTHING else they can do for income.

Why is this important. Many of these uneducated farmers have been sucker by banks (german french among others) with 0% interest loans. These same banks petition to cut farm susidies with the EU and individual nations. This means the farmers can make the 0% loan and are forclosed. Since these small farms grow much the same thing to be able to share the picking efforts, it ends up with large chunks being forclosed. The the parcels are consolodated.

Many of these are not lazy, just outclassed ecconomically by their own people, outclassed techwise in the 21st century, and just no way for their governments to have considered what to do with their own farmers.

European nations geneally screw their farmers to achieve their commie social engineering. The farmers then have a history of lining the nearest eurocrats along the nearest wall.


5 posted on 08/06/2004 3:56:46 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: longtermmemmory
Let me put it this way. In 1960 corn was $1.05/bu. A new Chevrolet cost $3000.00. Today corn is between $2.50 and $3.00/bu.. A new Chevrolet cost $30,000.00. Do the math. The American farmer is not getting rich on subsidies.

Put another way, in 1960 a new combine cost about $9,000.00. Today that new combine cost between $250,00.00 and $300,00.00, and sits in the shed 10 or 11 month of the year.
7 posted on 08/06/2004 4:11:19 PM PDT by chainsaw (VOTE AMERICAN - VOTE REPUBLICAN)
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