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To: Hank Kerchief
If you want to elimate subsidies, then you have to go whole-f'n-hog and institute a market system, where farmers have a say in how their crops are sold. Right now, they're captives to a rigged system. Doing away with subsidies without finishing the "marketization" of agriculture would be tantamount to the Zimbabweization of America.

Did you know that there are tons of fruit and berry farmers who are obligated to destroy every n'th row of their crops? They are even prohibited from feeding their own families with it, feeding it to animals, or even donating it to the starving.

The system is rigged top to bottom, and your "cure" is to yank the IV tube out of the barely-clinging-to-life farmer.

Go ahead, see what you'll get. You'll make a very nice pawn for the globalists who are waiting semi-patiently for the USA to be completely incapable of feeding itself. Enjoy your mayheekan asparagus, sold retail for less than it costs an American farmer to produce. Enjoy your chinese canned goods, and so forth.

When the USA is no longer able to feed itself, I'm sure you'll have ample opportunity to determine just how friendly our foreign "friends" really are.

58 posted on 02/15/2002 5:28:44 PM PST by Don Joe
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To: Don Joe
Glad to see some brains on this thread.
61 posted on 02/15/2002 5:33:18 PM PST by Doomonyou
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To: Don Joe
If you want to elimate subsidies, then you have to go whole-f'n-hog and institute a market system...

Exactly! I am for the total elimination of government from every aspect of production, from farming to high-tech. It would not solve all problems (there will always be problems) but it would eliminate all those problems that only exist because of government intrusion.

Hank

72 posted on 02/15/2002 5:51:42 PM PST by Hank Kerchief
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To: Don Joe
Don, whose policies have allowed this outrage to evolve? It sure does not sound like conservativism. Total government control over our food supply (farmers)....we need to change this...but where to start??? Peace Lapcat
98 posted on 02/15/2002 7:25:07 PM PST by XenaLee
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