"Jeff Binkley -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in news:31617
$POL_INC{at}JamNNTPd:

 BK>>>>   I do believe accusing a poster of criminal activity is
 BK>>>>   against the rules.G

 JM>>> So it is. Guess I should have said people like ORS, who, IMO
are
 JM>>> nothing more than welfare cheats.


 JM>>>   I expect the moderator will rule on that.

 JM>>> 'spect he will.

 RS>> Until he does, how about you fill us in.

 RS>> Precisely *HOW* did I cheat?

 RS>> Couple years ago I pointed out how Iowa corn farmers (who are
hardly
 RS>> hurting in the least,) get more money in a month, than I would get
in
 RS>> 25 years, in direct cash payouts under farm subsidies.

 RS>> Not one of you have even expressed disapproval of the corn
subsidies.

 RS>> But you are oh-so-condemning of me.

 RS>> You know why?

 JB> While I may not be wild about farm subsides, the farmers actually
 JB> produce something and are good for the country.  Shall I contrast that
 JB> with you ?

That's just it.
They get those subsidies even for *NOT* producing anything.
The entire farm subsidy program is outmoded, it was created when just
about all farms in the US were family farms.

Nowadays most farms are coporate owned, and family farms are in the
minority.

And if a business, which is what a farm is, a business, *HAS* to have
government subsidies even when not producing or producing large profits,
that subsidy needs to be ended.

Yet it's *REPUBLICANS* (like Charles Grassley of Iowa) who yell the
loudest if farm subsidies are proposed to be cut, much less ended.

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