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 factory!

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

 RS> Oh.

You didn'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 Carolina.

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

What, two or three growers?

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

 RS> Good.

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

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

 RS> Corn growers don't need direct subsidies.

They get them to product ethanol, idiot.

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

She is one of many.

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

She's a politician.

Ed

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