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   Yep, robin@pencom.com wrote to All on 18 Aug 95  07:46:16 
    about:   Re: - Welfare Cowboys? (eco):

r> Eva De Luna-Castro <eva.deluna.castro@cpa.state.tx.us> wrote:

 E> I quoted from in an earlier post, about federal water subsidies, the
 E> author tried to contact legislators who support these for farmers 
 E> who use them to grow surplus subsidized crops.  again, from the 
 E> August 95 issue of Atlantic Monthly, "During a phone interview
 E> with [Republican] Congressman Bill Thomas, of California, whose 
 
 E> to pay full cost for federal water.  He ignored my follow-up
 E> questions : and then abruptly ended the conversation."  

r> So are you arguing that it _wasn't_ the Democratically controlled
r> legislature of  the last 40 years which was responsible for these
r> subsidies -- or that the  "Republican" Congresscritter from the Central
r> Valley of CA is a jerk? 

 I believe that I have dealt with your Republican straw man; "the 
 Democratically controlled legislature" in another letter in this
 mail packet.   The fact is; Dems have been trying to end these
 subsidies for the rich, while Repubs have been fighting to keep them.

r> supported the subsidies?  What if the  Congresscritter had been Barbara
r> Boxer (who is a _very_ liberal Democrat)?   Would that have mattered?

 It is impossible.  Dems are against welfare for the rich.  It is
 the Party for the Rich who wants their cake and eat it to.

r> Who gives a flying monkey's rump which party they are from?  If the
r> policy is  wrong -- let's vote in people who will reverse it!

 Bingo!

r> (BTW, the above statement is _not_ to be mis-construed as my support
r> for  removing price subsidies or federally supported irrigation -- I
r> simply refuse to  base such a _serious_ (!) decision on the relatively
r> limited set of facts  provided in this forum.)

 Yep, a well rounded education might be nice.  Those interested
 in western water welfare might read Marc Reisner.  Once the Water
 Consortium's worst nightmare, (he was dead right,) he is now one
 of them, tours for them.

 --Doug Bashford.


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