[boycott]

I know peanut farmers that have made millions off the subsidies. It's a freaking joke.

[Blunderfromdownunder]

Its a strange situation. We have gotten rid of all farm subsidies, along with all import-tarrifs (excluding clothes, shoes and textiles) and now have a centre-left government that is perfectly willing to continue in this open/free-market vein, while the US with is conservative government is happy to go with the status quo, proping up ailling businesses with abandon. While, (as Shaggy eel) noted in a previous post, the upheaval in many peoples lives was huge when the NZ economy was opened up was enormous, we will ultimately be better off for it, but only if everyone else plays the game with reasonable fairness (I realise I am a bit of a dreamer ;-).