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To: eastforker
Would anyone here like to pay $20 a pound for hamburger meat.How about $10 for a box of cheerios or $12 a gallon for milk.

What a load of crap. You either know nothing about markets and price mechanisms or you're just blindly parroting the Welfare Farmer line.

Tell you what - let's go for it! I'll bet prices won't skyrocket once the Welfare Farmers get off our backs and off our tits, and I'm willing to take my chances with the free market, because it works.

Are you?

138 posted on 02/16/2002 8:23:18 AM PST by Hank Rearden
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To: Hank Rearden
What a load of crap. You either know nothing about markets and price mechanisms or you're just blindly parroting the Welfare Farmer line.

Your logic would work if you were talking about manufactured goods. But you're not, and you evidently enjoy showing off your ignorance. Say a farmer has a 100 acre field. He can only produce 500 bushels of wheat off of it. Then the price suddenly drops. He can't just produce more off of that field in order to try and recoup losses, he just has to sell at the lower price.

144 posted on 02/16/2002 10:50:25 AM PST by jrherreid
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