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  Irene, please spare me...

  I have read your posts on Kos and I am really tired of your self-righteous "I know the farmers" shtick. It's getting old. I know you know some farmers that would be hurt if subsidies were abolished but so what? Your constant refrain about your farmer friends knowing best reminds me of the interviews with soldiers in Iraq who are so passionate about how we must stay in Iraq and continue the fight etc... Are we supposed to take their word for it because they are soldiers and we must defer to their wisdom?

  Of course not, they like your farmer friends only see a microcosmic representation of the whole. There are many reasons all of the groups you reference (Oxfam, Club for Growth, Environmental Working Group etc) are aiming to kill agricultural subsides and it's not because they don't see something only you can understand. Your myopic allegiance to a few farmers you know has so tainted your views on this issue as to make your points somewhat irrelevant.

  I know many farmers who would love to see these subsidies eliminated.

  In the future would you please refrain from representing all the "family farmers" There are many progressive family farmers you don't speak for.

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