Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer wrote:
 EH> 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.

 EH> 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.

 EH> 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.

 EH> 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?

 EH> Yes, started by the Clinton administration, continued through the Bush
 EH> 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.

Apparently along with the plethora of things Otto knows nothing about is
the fact that for a really long time the government has been paying farmers
to *NOT* grow crops.


 EH> Ed



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