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From: danw@oliven.UUCP (danw)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: food for thought
Message-ID: <812@oliven.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 21:08:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 28 21:08:41 1985
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[]   Food for thought 
>It should be obvious that the American system combining many farmers
>with government technical assistance and price supports has been the most
>productive in the world.  The Agricultural Adjustment Act was passed in 1933
>to provide stability to the agricultural market which tends to suffer
>from the "cobweb effect" in which prices oscillate wildly due to a
>relatively inelastic demand, and an uncertain supply.  
>Unfortunately the Reagan administration is about to dismantle this system
>and pave the way for large corporations to exercise the same control over
>farming that they now exercise over other industries.  
>The ultimate effects will be the same as other industries- a few oligopolies
>will control the market, increase prices and restrict supply.
>Once again, the free market leads to its own dissolution.....
>But do not forget the role of government policy in making American agriculture
>the most productive in the world!
>         tim  sevener  whuxl!orb
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	I have read some pretty ridiculous things on the net in the last year
or so ... but this one takes the rag off the bush.
	There is one fact that can not be argued away - Socialism  can`t feed
itself. Before 1917 Russia was a net EXPORTER of wheat, (sevener will tell us
there has been 50 years of bad weather, and things will be better under the new
five year plan).
	The inescapable fact IS that free enterprise farmers in the west have
been feeding the world, socialists included. It we have any problems with 
farming it is that the government has been `trying to fix what aint broke`. 
Farmers have been working miracles in spite of the government.
	And along comes the net's leading Socialist to explain to us that the
	farm success is the RESULT of government controls  !       My God!
						danw

sevenerism: The total and absolute acceptance of Socialistic dogma , with the
            least regard for fact, ethics , morality, or the common good.