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To: ecommerceman who wrote (127968)	2/19/2001 12:09:20 AM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

ecom:the trouble with a govt subsidy targeted toward small family farms is that, though a nice idea, it would be a case of the govt giving with one hand and taking away with the other...pitting the small farmer directly against corporate agriculture, with its high powered law firms and million dollar lobbyists working on legislation to control water, prices, environmental issues, genetic engineering, etc. Guess which one of the above wins.

To: ecommerceman who wrote (127968)	2/19/2001 3:41:59 AM
From: CVJ	Respond to of 769670

I think I understand the difference between working the land you own and working for someone who owns the land. Labor is paid the least that labor is willing to accept. In return paid labor avoids the responsibility of sheparding the land. The owner prizes the satisfaction of the responsibility that paid labor shuns. Things still change. Not too much call for blacksmiths or carburetor mechanics nowadays. The same is becoming true for family farms; they change to adapt to new circumstances or they disappear. It's sad and not nice or preferred, but it is a law of civilization just as eat or be eaten is the law of the jungle. I grew up on a family farm (not my family) and I have pleasant memories but I wouldn't go back even if I could. It would be too much responsibility for a subsistence-level existence and the satisfaction of being at the helm of my own ship. Chas