Good evening Dave! Some days earlier, you wrote, in part:
> Imagine that! Bush is taking money away from one of the *only* sources of > assistance for the farmers and indigent/elderly and using it to fund his > war in Iraq. You'll have to pardon me while I get nauseous. Here's a little different take on the farm aspect of Bush's proposal. http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200502080732.asp I would think that ANY libertarian would say that Bush doesn't go far enough. It turns out that he is talking about limiting payments to $250,000 per farm. If only *I* could have that as my "only source of income." Another way of saying it is that he's trying to limit the payments to those who really are "family farms" and at least partially exclude corporate farms. Of course, that still doesn't tell me why a family-run farm should be any more sacred than the family-run grocery store. I suspect we'll find that the details of the "indigent/elderly" will, on closer inspection, be a similar sort of deal--weeding out fraud and those who don't need welfare. Lowell C. Savage It's the freedom, stupid! Gun control: tyrants' tool, fools' folly. _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [email protected] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
