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To: Srexley who wrote (148338)	5/24/2001 12:44:44 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 769670

JP? Who is JP? hmm, I think like cheap gas, that we have grown used to inexpensive food. We could eat. But would we be irritated to pay more, like people in other countries do? If I charged an hour what a computer programmer makes an hour for the cost of blueberries, would you pay it? Or say that you won't, like we don't want to pay more to someone who makes our hamburgers at McDonald's? No, we could not eat as cheap in this country if we didn't have subsidizes. They keep prices DOWN. And this talk of foreign stuff is a ruze. It is true of some products but not all. So the farmer is saved in lean times. The consumer gets the cheap goods all the time. That is the reall purpose. Why have people forgotten that? Family farmers are disappearing because of the estate tax. They are disappearing because even with help, they can't make a living charging what people thing food is worth. They want cheap food. They will pay 7 dollars for a movie and get irriatated at a rise in the price of milk. blahblah.