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To: Howlin
And if you insist on "blackmailing" the rest of us to rebuild your state,

Let them try.

They had better remember all those sugar subsidies Landrieu screwed the "American People" over with, just to get re-elected. It's not as if any of those damn politicians had Louisiana's best interest in mind in the first place. What makes them think they do now?!

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We can start here.

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Sen. Landrieu, like many Louisiana politicians, opposes a recent move to phase out import quotas on sugar.

Landrieu's efforts to "protect" sugar

American farmers no longer can earn sufficient profit from sugar. But rather than switch to more profitable crops, these farmers lobby Congress to restrict imports from foreign countries or levy tariffs to make foreign sugar uneconomical. As a result, they prolong their precarious positions, and Americans pay two to three times what the rest of the world pays for sugar.

Louisiana sugar producers have been protected by tariffs almost continuously since 1816. Import quotas on sugar have existed since 1934, except for one eight-year break that ended when President Reagan re-established them in 1982.

Sen. Landrieu -- and almost every other Louisiana politician -- opposes the Central American Free Trade Agreement, a plan that would double import quotas for sugar but take 15 more years to do it.

123 posted on 01/29/2006 10:57:23 AM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

There you go; and it's just a start.

Free sugar from the monpolies of Louisiana!!!


139 posted on 01/29/2006 11:28:22 AM PST by Howlin (Why don't you just report the news, instead of what might be the news? - Donald Rumsfeld 1/25/2006)
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