Well, in your scenario Bruce, now we have thousands fewer producers.....which results in how many millions fewer bushels of corn or wheat or soybeans in the supply market? What's THAT going to do to prices?
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:26 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? > > Bruce > > G Money wrote: > > Well, it's probably not true that this bill will help with the rising > > prices, Bruce, but that doesn't mean that it's passing wasn't partly > related > > to the rise in cost anyway. > > > > The higher prices simply got people thinking about farmers....and > > grumbling..."do something!" So this bill really picked up political steam > in > > just the last few weeks, and I think that can be at least partly > attributed > > to the higher cost of food..... > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:260206 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
