[Rhodes22-list] Farm subsidies.

[Brad Haslett]

Rummy,

Oh, I get it now.  They do for us with food what oil companies do with oil.
How did I miss that growing up in a farm town?

Brad

PS.  Anne, I know where you live!


On 7/4/06, R22RumRunner at aol.com <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Brad,
> I know what farm families look like and I know how they struggle each year
> to make mortgage, tractor and feed payments. Then mother nature comes
> along and
> kicks them in the teeth with either too much rain or not enough or maybe a
> late  freeze or a hail storm that lays the crops down so they can't be
> harvested. Quit  bellyaching about farm subsidies when you are the one
> benefiting from
> them just  like the rest of us.
> The subsidies that are paid, even to the large corporate farms disappear
> quickly when you try to buy a new tractor, manure spreader or many other
> pieces
> of equipment needed to run a modern dairy farm. There are abusers of this
> program, but for the most part they do exactly what they were intended
> for, to
> keep a constant, cheap food supply in the grocery stores.
>
> Rummy
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