[AT] Tobacco transplanting time

[Dave Rotigel]

Hi Guy, Glad that you like living on government WELFARE. Fact is that I 
don't like people that do!
         Dave

At 09:47 AM 5/5/2005, you wrote:
>Just Peachy, Dave.
>
>Here in Southern Wisconsin, the program operated at a profit to the 
>government. It basically was a way of limiting production to what the 
>market needed, and unifying the growers for more negotiating power with 
>Big Tobbacco. The bad part of the old way was the allotments, which 
>resulted in big land rents being collected by folks who owned the allotments.
>
>The new way puts all the power into the tobacco company hands- they decide 
>who grows how much. Yeah, the high land rents are gone. However, the 
>tobbacco companies are the most dishonest companies in America, and there 
>has already been major abuse of the power that they have been given- the 
>northern group of growers in Wisconsin have been completely shut down- the 
>companies have completely ignored those guys. 150 years of growing down 
>the tubes.
>
>Dave, it sounds like you've bought the typical line of BS about government 
>programs that's spouted by the company PR guys trying to make more bucks 
>for their bosses. I'd suggest researching the facts before telling folks 
>they're in the same category as crack whores. Think a little.
>
>Guy Fay
>
>Dave Rotigel wrote:
>
>>
>>>   Wonder how long they can survive in the new days of tobacco without 
>>> the price supports.
>>>David
>>
>>
>>Why on earth would anyone want to be on government welfare? Do the 
>>tobacco farmers (or any farmers for that matter) really want that? Why 
>>would they want to be included in the same category as crack whores and 
>>welfare queens?
>>         Dave
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