I don't get how on one hand people are complaining that all the farmers growing Corn for Ethanol are causing shortages or supply/demand price problems - then on the other hand we are still paying farmers NOT to farm?!?!? WTF?
I mean I honestly don't know what was in the Farm Bill, but if the US Govt is still paying farmers not to farm, then how about they start paying them to start growing fuel? Ia m no big supporter of Ethanol anymore, but if extra capacity AND a supply shortage, that's GREAT evidence of govt mucking up free markets by tinkering with them. -Cameron On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Bruce Sorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right, but why pay people to do nothing? If you are not making money > with your farm, do something else. I know it is probably not as easy as > it sounds, but seriously, looking back at the beginning of subsidies, it > was broke from the beginning. How about fixing what is broke rather then > throwing money at the problem? Perhaps rather than pay them to not farm, > they pay for job training in another field? Then we only have the > farmers who are actually growing cops and making money. Or am I missing > something here? -- Cameron Childress Sumo Consulting Inc http://www.sumoc.com --- cell: 678.637.5072 aim: cameroncf email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:260205 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
