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To: Ish who wrote (42167)	6/27/1999 7:43:00 PM
From: James R. Barrett	Respond to of 108807

Ish, I think Christine is talking about the long, hard and wet cucumbers that she buys at Costco's. Jim

To: Ish who wrote (42167)	6/27/1999 10:01:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Ish, I think we are just looking at American farm products from the perspective of living in different states. You have a lot of waterways in the Midwest. We do have railroad tracks here which sometimes branch off into the fields in the Central Valley, also known as America's Salad Bowl, where most of the nation's produce is grown. However, the largest owner of farmland in this state is the large supermarket chains, and they have sorting/packaging/processing plants in the agricultural areas, with huge parking lots full of giant trucks. Northern California is also a logging center, and while the felled trees might eventually be carried to other parts of the country on railway cars, the tree farms are located in remote, mountainous areas, and they are hauled by trucks down endless winding roads going very, very slowly with me usually stuck behind them. Trucks here have to stop regularly at weighing stations, where they pay a fee to help keep our highways repaired, since they do so much damage to them. This is a nice adjunct to vehicle registration fees, which I believe also help pay for road maintenance. It seems easier to do it this way, in addition to taxes, instead of create toll roads everywhere, which would most significantly limit the travel of the poor. As we know from the recent court ruling where a judge ruled that California could not pay lower public assistance benefits for the first year to recent arrivals to discourage them coming from other states, it is a basic freedom under our Constitution to be able to travel freely. Anyway, I think we could agree that there is sure a lot of farm stuff, and it gets carried one way or the other somewhere else! ;-)