[donozark]

Another problem with your post. I just emailed the "SCOOP" and was told it was US DOLLARS. Not NZD. Don't believe me? Email them and find out...No need to convert.

[Blunderfromdownunder]

Uhuh. So, first you claim the amount mentioned in the "breaking news" article (ie has yet to be fully analysed/verified, is obviously once-over lightly etc etc) is far to big to be true. Then I say, well its probably in NZ dollars being a NZ article (its typical for NZ news agencies to convert foreign currency figures into NZ dollars when reporting). Then you actually find out that the $350 billion IS in US dollars, which you now dont seem to have a problem with. You pit your (biased, fallible) source of figures against my (biased, fallible) source of figures to show that farm subsidies dont account for all of the spending in the bill...And then you slip in that you dont agree with farm subsidies...So whats your point? Whether subsidies are 30% or 60% of $350 billion, that is still alot of welfare that we obviously both disagree with