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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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To: jrherreid
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.

Ok, so what? And why does the price "suddenly drop"? Magic, or too many farmers cranking out too much of the same stuff?

Sounds a whole lot like supply and demand to me - you know, the concept that governs any commodity business.

Nobody said being in business was easy; the solution, if you can't hack it, is not to bribe politicians to go grab somebody else's money and give it to you. Why do you deserve the money more than those who earned it, anyway? Presumably, those people produced a product or service that others wanted, at a price that was profitable. So why do you deserve to have that money if you didn't earn it?

Being adept at bribing politicians shouldn't be the basis of one's income. Time for Welfare Farmers to get their hands out of other citizens' pockets; there is NO justification to steal other people's money, no matter how much you try to dress it up Norman-Rockwell style.

147 posted on 02/16/2002 6:12:14 PM PST by Hank Rearden
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