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To: energyplay who wrote (61463)	4/2/2005 2:05:58 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

why will it be in US long term interests to stop the ag subsidies ? Yes. Here's why: Because the money that pay the subsidies is taken from productive sectors of the economy. It is tax on sector that are competive to subsidize incompetitive sector of the economy, i.e., agriculture. Second, politicians will dirstribute the subcisides to suit their poilitcial agendas not necessarily to the benefit of the economy as a whole. For instance Bill Clinton bribing senators not to impeach him by doling out subsidies to angora goat farmers in Montana. If agriculture producers could enter the market more likely they would be improving their economies and imrpoived economies is no fertile ground for terrorists. Today they can't compete. By subsidizing some crops it will only make farmers use more fertilizer and increase its prices and make them more expensive for the Sudanese. Anyway, such situation is not going to last very long because there is less and less money to subsidize agriculture.

To: energyplay who wrote (61463)	4/2/2005 2:16:54 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

This is the areaL parstimes.com Here is where east meets west. I called it the "Shish Kebab Patch" They need to leave behind the nefarious legacy of the former USSR. Their strong men have to be booted uncerimonously out.

To: energyplay who wrote (61463)	4/2/2005 11:44:56 AM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>Maybe the US should cut subsidies to help our trade partners fight communism<< You mean in China or somewhere else? BTW, the US will NEVER significantly cut agri. subsidies, and China has followed the US and other developed countries' example and started to subsidize its agricultural sector too. Just like what they say "if you cannot beat them then join them". And ironically, this will only enhance the social stability in China and strengthen the current leadership<g>.