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To: TimF who wrote (186371)	4/10/2004 6:05:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

They do do something.....they protect homegrown industries that provide people jobs. You said that the foreign farmers can't compete. If they can't then the trade barriers do not protect American farmers. If the only reason they can't compete is that they can't overcome the barriers then the barriers do more harm then good. I said that when you were talking third world countries. However, some third world countries like Chile and Argentina can compete.......so can European farmers. If farmers want to compete effectively, they must keep up with cutting edge technology. 1 - That is not true in all cases. 2 - People in poor countries can sometimes stay current with cutting edge technologies. 3 - If your statement was true and there was not getting around it then the trade barriers and subsidies would not be needed because foreign competition would be impossible. Is my statement general? Yes. Is it perfectly true? No......rarely is anything "perfectly" true. This a thread, not a clinical trial. Things do not have to be perfectly true here. ted