On 02/11/2010 07:57 PM, Ross Sauer -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 RS> "Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
 RS> news:20237$MATZDOBRE{at}JamNNTPd:

 EH>> On 02/11/2010 06:01 PM, Ross Sauer -> Ross Cassell wrote:
 RS>>> "Ross Cassell -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
 RS>>> news:20224$MATZDOBRE{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>>>>> I paid thousands and thousands into Social Security
during the
 RC>>>> time I RS> was working. Shit, I even worked at a cheese
 EH>> factory!

 RC>>>> But you are not drawing from Social Security, you are drawing
 EH>> from a RC>> program that is only administered by the same agency.
 EH>> Your check comes RC>> out of the general fund.

 RS>>> Oh.

 EH>> You didn't know?

 RS> No I didn't.

Add that to all the rest of the things you don't know.

 RS>>>>> When are *YOU* (yes you,) going to start battling against the
 RS>>>>> government subsidies tobacco farmers in your state get?

 RC>>>> SC is not that big a tobacco grower as Tennessee or North
 EH>> Carolina.

 RS>>> Doesn't matter, they get direct subsidies.

 EH>> What, two or three growers?

 RS> Tobacco Subsidies in South Carolina totaled $24.3 million from 1995-
 RS> 2006.

So?

 RS> http://farm.ewg.org/farm/progdetail.php?fips=45000&progcode=tobacco

 RC>>>> Aside from that the taxes on tobacco are going through the
 EH>> roof.

 RS>>> Good.

 RS>>>>> I've already shown how corn farmers get thiese direct
 EH>> subsidies, RC>> they RS> get in a month more than I
would get in 25
 EH>> years.

 RS>>>>> Oh that's different!

 RC>>>> Yes it is.

 RS>>> Corn growers make huge profits, every year.
 RS>>> Find me a sweetened product that doesn't have that high-fructose
 EH>> corn RS> syrup in it.

 EH>> I drink a beverage that has no HFCS in it. None. It is a flavored
 EH>> water that has sucralose in it.

 RS> I do one better, just water.

Did I give you the impression that I don't drink water?

 RS>>> Corn growers don't need direct subsidies.

 EH>> They get them to product ethanol, idiot.

 RS> So they *HAVE* to have direct government subsidies to do this?

Yes, started by the Clinton administration, continued through the Bush
administration and increased under Obama.

 RS>>> Speaking of which, Congressnut Michelle "Government handouts are
 RS>>> socialism" Bachmann has receive $250,000 from the government for
 EH>> her RS> farm.
 RS>>> For growing NOTHING.

 EH>> She is one of many.

 RS> Duh.

You're at a loss of anything intelligent to add?

 RS>>> Her reaction to this news? The usual, "No comment."

 EH>> She's a politician.

 RS> She's a fruitcake.

You calling anyone a fruitcake is hilarious.

Ed

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