[toddst]

#8........The US has as many subsidies as anyone else, now if we sat down and cleared all subsidies off the deck, that would be something else, and I am all for that.

I don't know whether we have equity in subsidies, but I agree with you - let's eliminate them all and let the free market REALLY work.

[Great Dane]

Funny little story on subsidies:
One year [I think under King Clinton] a bushel of Durham wheat was $4+ in the US, but if farmers chose to export it, it was subsidized to the tune of $11 a bushel, result.... all Durham wheat was exported,[ keep in mind, you need Durham for pasta,]the US still wouldn't allow Canada to fill the gab, as I remember the pasta had to be imported.
Subsidies and sillyness goes hand in hand, and no one has monopoly on either.