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To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (117752)	2/15/2009 2:24:25 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

FF, nope - the demicans are greedy, too. that's why so many of them don't pay their taxes.

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (117752)	2/16/2009 12:10:51 AM
From: S. maltophilia	1 Recommendation Respond to of 132070

<<democrat stupidity and cluelessness>> Yep, plenty of that there, too: Our Alcohol Problem With rising food prices and questions about its environmental impact, corn ethanol is fueling controversy—except among Democrats. Robert Bryce \| February 06, 2009 \| Features Jim Schwertner can almost see food prices rising in real time. He only needs to look through the big smudged window behind his paperwork-covered desk. Schwertner’s second-floor office overlooks the dusty pens and loading docks at Capitol Land & Livestock, the sprawling cattle brokerage business that he owns about 45 miles north of Austin. Capitol Land & Livestock is one of the biggest cattle traders in America, buying, selling and shipping about 3,000 head per day. But by early December, the number of cattle moving through Schwertner’s maze of chutes and pens had fallen about 10 percent from a year earlier. Schwertner, who has spent his whole life in the cattle industry, sees an obvious culprit: federal mandates that require the use of ethanol in gasoline. Those mandates, particularly the ones ordered by Congress in 2007.... texasobserver.org