[AT] Farmer's Welfare To Continue?

Dave Rotigel rotigel at me.com
Fri Jul 12 19:05:45 PDT 2013


We have come to a sad state of Political Correctness when supporting the FREE MARKET might be seen by someone as "political"!
	Dave
PS, Good on ya, Greg, for putting into words what many of us believe!

On Jul 12, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Greg Hass wrote:

> I to would like to see the farm programs disappear; however our 
> government does NOT want that to happen. Many years ago (I'm thinking 
> about 45) the USDA had a vote of farmers whether to keep farm programs 
> or to get out of the farmers business. The vote was greatly in favor of 
> leaving the free market system work. The powers that be got mad and 
> eliminated the farm programs; however they established a "food 
> reserve".  The government bought up millions of bushels of grain and 
> when the price went up they dumped it on the market driving the prices 
> back down at which time they would resupply their stockpiles. Even if 
> they didn't dump on the market, the buyers knew the supplies were there 
> and had no reason to pay higher prices. Two or three years into the 
> program, thousands of farmers were going broke, so the subsidies were 
> brought back in to stem the tide of farmers going broke. As for telling 
> them what I grow, I hate it. Sadly, it doesn't matter because with 
> airplanes and satallites they know how much of each crop I'm growing 
> better than I do. I realize this is close to political, so I hope I have 
> not affended anyone but I feel it is somewhat farm related. My opinions 
> only and I will say no more on the subject.
> 
> Greg Hass
> 
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