Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site oliven.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!oliven!danw 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 Article-I.D.: oliven.812 Posted: Thu Feb 28 21:08:41 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 07:32:38 EST Organization: National Cobalt Testing Range Lines: 33 [] 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.