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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: ecommerceman who wrote (127864)2/18/2001 6:48:27 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
<<What we're seeing in farm country right now is very much akin to what DID happen in the Soviet Union, and that is to have the land worked by a class of people who have no economic interest in it (read: hired hands). And that is PRECISELY why I support breaking large land-holdings up when rich landholders die--it usually returns the land to family farmers, often beginning ones...>>

No, what is happening is the farms are getting bigger. Those that have are buying the land from the small holders. New farmers can't pay the nut to start.
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