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To: Doo who wrote (42435)	3/7/2000 8:41:00 AM
From: Lee Lichterman III	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99985

>>... after the government succeeds in eliminating the American farmer<< Actually the government subsidies are what has been keeping agricultural prices too low. If the Govt would stop the subsidies ( or at least most of them) then the strong would survive, the weak would go out of business and the following years, there would be less surplus and the prices for farm produce would NATURALLY go up on their own since supply and demand would be back in alignment. Maybe this would weed out mostly smaller family farms but hey, no where does it guarantee the right to be a farm owner. If I desire, I can claim my back yard is a farm, apply for farm aid and then plant too much of what we don't need and cash my governmnet check. Better yet, I can do the old "get paid to Not grow something" scam of which I have a joke copy around here somewhere about not growing pigs nor the grain to not feed them <g> Letting a few farms fail so that we didn't have to give away for free half the grain grown due to surplus would let commodity prices go back to normally higher prices na dallow those farms that did survive to do so with less worries and without Government intervention. Heck if we did away with the subsidies, maybe there really would be a surplus instead of one like most tech stock earnings, vaporware. <ng> Good Luck, Lee