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To: DMaA who wrote (957)	7/1/2008 11:15:14 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3816

you also could view it as a policy to keep food prices cheap. It is often a policy to keep food prices high. Look at the milk compact, or restrictions in importing sugar, or tariffs on alcohol imports, or farm price supports. Anyway, his position is defensible only if you use an absurdly narrow definition of social spending True. And not just narrow, but highly selective, because its not just entitlements that went up, so you can't just exclude them, you have to pick and choose what non-entitlement programs you want to count.