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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (42222)	11/30/2005 2:30:16 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 90947

You won. By cheating, I'd say. This is going to come back and bite you in the ***. There will be a case (say farm subsidies?) where this will blow up in your face. "The Japanese have found many ways to subsidize their postage-stamp-size farms, citing the need for national food independence. At least that part is true. US rice growers would wipe then out in a month on a level field." Hmmm, I can tell you are totally unfamilar with what is happening there. If you go to google-earth and veer across southern Alberta and Saskatchewan along the 49th parallel you will see more farms on the U.S. side of the border than the Canadian side strictly due to U.S. farm subsidies. And this has to be due solely to subsidies instead of a thousand other factors that could affect it? Are you kidding? Not that I am in favor of farm subsidies in this country. They should have been ended long ago. This is NOT to imply that Canada does not also subsidize its farmers. It does, as a mattter of fact. In Canada, government support accounts for about 9% of the value of farm production. Meanwhile, that figure is about 29% in the United States, and 41% in the EU. In other words, Canadian wheat farmers receive about one-third of the government support that the U.S. grower receives, and about one-fifth what the EU grower receives. aamdc.com He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone.