🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <40q5h9$ndj@dolphin.tdh.texas.gov>,
Eva De Luna-Castro  <eva.deluna.castro@cpa.state.tx.us> wrote:

>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."  
>

There's welfare for the rich, welfare for the poor.  The problem is there's
no welfare for the middle class; we just have to pay for it all.


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