To: calcowgirl
the issue here is, farmers needing their welfare?
I'm kinda tired of millionaires on the dole
To: greasepaint
That isn't the same issue here that you've seen repeatedly in other areas of the country. This one's quite different. Yes, you'll find some subsidies, but meanwhile they're able to drive these farmers out by stealing their water and rights, who paid for the irrigation system including the dam and conveyance parts years and years ago under an agreement with the Feds to build it for 'em.
These particular farmers in this particular region are NOT Archer-Daniels Midland!!! Many of them are barely surviving, even with their meager subsidy if they qualify for one... Stick around and watch this issue unfold all over again.
Now it's got the Goliath of Arnold Schwartzenegger's bondage measures in the Billions, pitted against these poor dirt farmers who've done nothing to anyone but grow potatoes for Lays Potato Chips for generations on what used to be seasonal flooded swampland!!!
59 posted on
12/03/2006 10:06:15 AM PST by
SierraWasp
(EnvironMentalism... America's establishment of it's new unconstitutional State Religion!!!)
To: greasepaint
You are obviously unfamiliar with this isue to make such a statement. Go over to Klamath and spend some time with
these farmers and research this issue and you will find you are wholly off base with such a comment as it applies to the Klamath Basin.
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61 posted on
12/03/2006 10:21:54 AM PST by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be)
To: greasepaint
Good morning.
"I'm kinda tired of millionaires on the dole"
I would say that you are ignorant as to what the situation is here in the West.
I've seen it called "The War on the West" and it is.
It leads back to the environazi idea of returning most of the land in the west to a state of wilderness and it has virtually nothing to do with corporate farming.
Michael Frazier
66 posted on
12/03/2006 10:56:01 AM PST by
brazzaville
(no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
To: greasepaint
the issue here is, farmers needing their welfare? I'm kinda tired of millionaires on the dole And we are fed up with Marxist aka Greens getting welfare in the form of our tax money buying millions of acres for their private use. At least farmers return something to us and they employ lots of people...
75 posted on
12/03/2006 1:34:19 PM PST by
tubebender
(Growing old is mandatory...Growing up is optional)
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