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To: gratefulwharffratt
I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. Maybe you could explain to me how this is such a great thing for farmers.

I already have,and you must agree with me,or you wouldn't still be growing tobacco. Nobody is forcing you to do this,and you COULD grow another crop instead. Since you don't,this tells me you are making money growing tobacco.

25 posted on 09/17/2002 11:58:12 PM PDT by sneakypete
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To: sneakypete
Nobody is forcing you to do this,and you COULD grow another crop instead. Since you don't,this tells me you are making money growing tobacco.


I am an advocate of free markets. Tobacco has been grown around here for more than three hundred years, and if it were up to me, the farmers here would still be able to grow the best tobacco in the world for three hundred MORE years.

Making 'some' money, and being SEVERELY limited by the government is NOT the same thing as "getting money from the government for generations." If you were a factory worker, it would be like telling you that you can only work 25 hours per week, and oh yeah, you can only make whatever wage we decide. I can't see how this is a good thing.

Or, do you believe that ALL money is earned only at the pleasure of the government?? Somehow, the government SEVERELY limiting my ability to farm does NOT mean (to me, anyway) that I am 'getting money from the government.'

Now, if tobacco farmers were part of the farm subsidy bill, which pays farmers NOT to grow crops or to raise livestock, then your point would be well taken. However, this is not the case, and tobacco farmers are limited in their choices, and NOT compensated for those limitations.

I guess you would be happier if I bought a few dairy cows, and then jumped on the public dole, like many hollywood 'farmers??'

28 posted on 09/18/2002 12:26:43 AM PDT by gratefulwharffratt
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