Re: [FairfieldLife] Lets see if DIXON and SHEMP can deal with one single issue

[MDixon6569]

In a message dated 10/22/06 3:40:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mexican farmers and US farm subsidies. US (and European) goverment subsidises its farmers such that bankruptcy is avoided by their farmers. Without these subsidies the US farmers would have a hard time to compete with other countries. The US makes a vast fortune in arms sales around the world and other dubious business. These subsidies mean that a Mexican farmer cannot compete so he cannot afford to hire farm hands, so the workers go to the US (illegally) to work and gain from the US subsidies. The Mexican farmer cannot compete. The US farmer gets cheap, illegal labor, and the right-wingers in this country try to build a joke fence to stop them coming in. The US continues to make money from oil companies, selling arms, and racking up a massive debt which stands today at: $8,553,293,703,6000.05 http://brillig.com/debt_clock/ Thus, through these dubious methods of funding its farmers, the US contributes directly to keeping the poor, poor, and the Mexican economy subserviant to US control at a low economic level. One instance where the US makes others stay poor (very bad karma for US), and I am looking forward to watch MDIXON and Shemp's usual avoidance of the issues, changing the subject, slinging names around, and cutting and running. It is like watching Laurel and Hardy build a house. OffWorld Well, why doesn't the Mexican government subsidize their farmers? Quite frankly I'm against some farm subsidies. But I can tell you this from what little I know about it, there would be a lot of family farms go under in the United States and that isn't a good liberal position. It means big business controlling more American agriculture which would do more to drive down the prices for the Mexican farmer. I'm still trying to figure out how arms sales by the US ties in with farm subsidies and the Mexican farmer and the US debt is making us money. __._,_.___ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___