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robin@pencom.com wrote:
>Doug.Bashford%ow@salata.com (Doug Bashford) wrote:
>
>:  
>:   Funny how the Republicans and dittoheads have decided that 
>:   welfare for the rich is ok, but not for poor mothers.   
>:   Examples are Welfare Cowboys, Welfare Loggers, Welfare Farmers,
>:   and Welfare Miners.
>
>Clever...  But do you have some real data?  Why not just provide some 
>detailed data about how much each of the above groups is getting 
>any objective rationale...  People might think you are biased -- and not 
>just some kook.

How about this, from the August 1995 issue of Atlantic Monthly:

"Cotton figures in the controversy over the "double dip": the use of 
subsidized water to grow subsidized surplus crops. In addition to 
receiving Bureau of Reclamation water in some regions, cotton is almost
always declared in surplus by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, making
cotton growers eligible for certain USDA payments.  Since the putative 
intent of the surplus-crop program is to scale back the production of 
crops that are overabundant, it seems perverse to stimulate production
by allowing growers of surplus crops to use subsidized water. According
to the USDA, farmers use about $85 million worth of subsidized water
each year to grow surplus crops for which they also receive about $500
million from the USDA."