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"those who get elected by those who are getting the money"

steves — 4/15/2011 4:37:48 PM (archived)

Can you imagine a presidential candidate going to Iowa and demanding that the biggest state in the union receiving subsidies should stop receiving them? There lays the biggest problem as you know and the lobbyist will continue the push for more.

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Gedankenexperiment - er - 4/14/2011 3:39:31 AM
- Re: Re: Agriculture subsidies - steves - 4/15/2011 3:29:56 PM
- Efficiency - steves - 4/15/2011 3:10:11 PM
  - Re: So family farms are a social good - steves - 4/15/2011 4:25:28 PM
  - Re: So family farms are a social good - TB - 4/15/2011 3:48:18 PM
    - "those who get elected by those who are getting the money" - steves - 4/15/2011 4:37:48 PM
  - So family farms are a social good - robvg - 4/15/2011 3:36:25 PM
- See messages n/t - steves - 4/15/2011 3:08:31 PM
- Any farmer which requires a handout is in the wrong business. - Lee - 4/15/2011 2:26:42 AM
- Re: Agriculture subsidies - TB - 4/15/2011 12:34:32 AM
- Copy that. - ER - 4/14/2011 10:55:30 PM
- Re: Gedankenexperiment - steves - 4/14/2011 10:34:10 PM
- Re: Re: NPR...Yep. That's it. n/t - ER - 4/14/2011 10:28:52 PM
  - That's probably the only way. - Lee - 4/15/2011 2:40:45 AM
  - Re: Re: Good. - TB - 4/14/2011 11:23:23 PM
    - Really? - TB - 4/15/2011 3:22:02 AM
    - I see. I really see. - Eri - 4/15/2011 2:19:37 AM
  - Re: Good. (EDIT) - ER - 4/14/2011 11:08:50 PM
    - Go Focus yourself - er - 4/15/2011 5:05:00 AM
    - Re: Focus - TB - 4/15/2011 3:45:53 AM
  - Good. - TB - 4/14/2011 11:04:16 PM
- Re: NPR - TB - 4/14/2011 10:24:00 PM
- Re: Re: Re: Can't really answer:(EDIT) - er - 4/14/2011 8:29:26 PM
- Of course you can have it both ways. - TB - 4/14/2011 7:56:46 PM
- Re: Re: Can't really answer - ER - 4/14/2011 7:32:10 PM
- Re: Can't really answer - TB - 4/14/2011 6:32:01 PM
- You wanted the Republican full monty. - robvg - 4/14/2011 3:35:32 PM
- Re: I have made so many choices - er - 4/14/2011 1:22:14 PM
- I have made so many choices - Jody - 4/14/2011 1:04:55 PM
- If you forget which pill does what,... - ER - 4/14/2011 12:20:42 PM
- Re: Cant' really answer without doing a lot reading. - ER - 4/14/2011 11:53:06 AM
- Re: Are you kidding me? - ER - 4/14/2011 11:33:37 AM
  - Re: Well, I can't afford a reduction in benefits OR a tax increase. - ER - 4/14/2011 11:59:52 AM
  - Well, I can't afford a reduction in benefits OR a tax increase. - Eri - 4/14/2011 11:49:09 AM
- Cant' really answer without doing a lot reading. - robvg - 4/14/2011 5:35:34 AM
- Are you kidding me? - TB - 4/14/2011 4:46:41 AM
- I can think of one gov service... - ER - 4/14/2011 4:23:42 AM
- Re: Gedankenexperiment - TB - 4/14/2011 4:10:26 AM
- Oh Hell...just hand me the blue pill n/t - Jody - 4/14/2011 3:46:53 AM

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