Alotta Fagina wrote:
You wrote:


In article . com,
basskisser wrote:


Wasted fruit: Tons of pears, picked past their prime, rot in a field
near Lakeport, Calif. An estimated 30 percent of this year's pear crop
will not be harvested because of a lack of migrant laborers.

The jobs that even 30,000,000 illegal aliens won't do.

Guess the farmers are going to have to suck it up and make some
capitial equipment investment and get into the 1990s.


No, they'll get felons like Willie Nelson to cry to Congress and make
everybody else bail 'em out again. And again. And again.



Wait. There's a difference in trying to help small family-run farms and
big corporate farms that receive the bulk of farm subsidies. It's not
exactly the subsidies that are wrong, it's the administration of the
programs than shaft both family farms and the American taxpayer.

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*fas-cism* (fash'iz'em) n. A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.
-- The American Heritage Dictionary



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------George W. Bush to the Houston Chronicle, April 9th, 1999