"Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
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?

No I didn't.

 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?

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

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.

I do one better, just water.

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

 EH> They get them to product ethanol, idiot.

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

 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.

Duh.

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

 EH> She's a politician.

She's a fruitcake.

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