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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (128422)	2/21/2001 4:36:23 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

James: Re farm subsidies, I'm no expert here but it seems to me that the difference between farming and any other business is that the raw material of production can't be moved elsewhere. Whereas in industry what we have seen for 15 years is a gradual relocation of many thousands of jobs, even millions, outside our borders. This has occurred because business has continued to seek lower production costs, at the expense of the standard of living of those right here who are the customers. We enjoy relatively low prices for the stuff we buy ecause more and more of it is being produced overseas, and economic growth is sustained by continuing to find ways of cutting costs. But this cannot occur in the same way with food production. As corporate interests continue to gain an increasing influence on food production, they do improve efficiency, but they pay poorly, employ more and more people who have no stake in the process, they are not necessarily environmentally responsible and they gain an increasing monopoly on the whole process. Just between you and me, I don't like monopolies, least of all in food production.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (128422)	2/21/2001 6:07:58 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

James, The farm subsidy gig is very complicated. I am way more familiar with this program then I care to be. Unfortunately it is yet another example of the government trying to do a good thing and then mucking it up. The fact that they should have never become involved in the first place goes without saying. We need to exit but the big question is how without bankrupting the few that are left. Saddest part of all is that they were "saving" the family farm and instead have helped it to death. The programs actually created the corporate farms that they are now trying to kill. All in all I guess that is rather typical of anything run by those knobs.