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Originally Posted by Boreas
The thing that got me was that 67% of all farmers get nothing and 10% of the 33% that do get subsidies get 74% of the money. If I did the math right that's 3.3% of ALL farmers get 74% of ALL the money.
John
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I haven't done the math, but that's probably right. The people who I know who are successful at sucking money out of the USDA are, or can afford, lawyers. And they stay on top of what the programs are.
In America, we don't reward the productive, we reward the manipulative.
Chas
12-26-2009, 02:24 PM
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