On 03/07/2010 01:46 PM, Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG> 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.

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

He also doesn't know that those programs were instituted by DEMOCRAT
congresses, not Republicans.

Ed

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