🚀 go-pugleaf

ph276sw@prism.gatech.edu (Scott Wilhelm) wrote:
>
>Actually it is interesting to note that it was the
>democrats who controled congress for the last
>40 years or so that set all these govt subsidies into
>place...
>The repubs currenlty controlling congress have been
>cutting "welfare for the rich" and "corporate welfare"
>, perhapsnot as much or a quickly as we would like,
>but by and large when it comes down to specific
>cuts the dems have been opposing them...
>If you want to cut welfare for the rich
>vote in more Republicans.

Actually it is interesting to note that while writing the article
I quoted from in an earlier post, about federal water subsidies, the
author tried to contact legislators who support these for farmers 
who use them to grow surplus subsidized crops.  again, from the 
August 95 issue of Atlantic Monthly, "During a phone interview
with [Republican] Congressman Bill Thomas, of California, whose 
Central Valley district includes major cotton producers, I broached
the subject of the double dip.  Angrily he cut off my question,
asserting--incorrectly--that cotton is not commonly a surplus crop.
He curtly added--again incorrectly--that farmers are required by law
to pay full cost for federal water.  He ignored my follow-up questions
and then abruptly ended the conversation."