[Malsua]

>>Other nations can produce food for less money, why don't we just buy it from them and then we can sell them our GM products or technology?
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Uhm, because if they have a bad year or there is a trade embargo or whatever, we are beholden to them. In that event WE STARVE!. The U.S. Gov't pays farmers to have EXCESS capacity, in good years, we feed ourselves and others, in bad years, we don't go hungry.

[hedgetrimmer]

You are correct. In the global socialist view however, it is good to starve America and so trade policies are invoked by the global socialist WTO that harm us. No matter what the free traders say, when you have an organization that is populated mostly by socialists, and everyone gets 1 vote, guess what you get? Give a cigar to the guy who says socialism, he's right!