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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (99409)2/8/2005 8:39:02 PM
From: Lane3   of 793915
 
Going "cold turkey" is always better when you are eliminating something bad.

I think that, when the something that you're eliminating is job related, that phasing is important. Young people can find other ways to make a living. It's not so easy for middle aged people who have done nothing but, say, farm all their lives. Pulling the rug out from under them is really cold. For a lot of these areas, particularly something like tobacco farming, people have had plenty of warning. I would include warning time in the phasing. We can stop supporting tobacco farming this very day. There shouldn't be any young people still doing that. If there are, they're cognitively impaired.

I agree with what you posted about small farmers. If they want to farm, they should have found a niche by now. Shiitake mushrooms, herbs, something like that.
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