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  in response to whisker and bio-d

  i know that i missed the debate but i just couldn't resist

  there is one thing that i agree with biodiversivist on, namely that the government should stop their "propping up" behavior.  Of course, he makes an assumption about what is being "propped up" that follows the common myth that so many swallow.

  What we're propping up out here with virtually unlimited government subsidies is the consolidated, corporate, high-tech production systems that you deem so valuable and invulnerable.

  What's happening to small farmers, ranchers and rural communities is not the product of some invisible economic hand, some unchangeable natural phenomenon.  The consolidation, concentration and corporatization of agricultural assets in rural America is the product of public policy choices that were made by people and that can be changed by people.

  Explain to me why urbanites like you seem to think rural people owe you something and that everyone that lives out here secretly dreams of living in your neighborhood?

  A fair shake, that's all we need, no more than we deserve but no less either.  And if we cannot agree to create public policies that accomplish that, perhaps we should just go our separate ways, lol.  We'd have about 60 million people and 80% of the property in America, 98% of the food production, 98% of the energy production, and all the really nice places to look at.

  Oh, and we'd have most of the nuclear weapons too, so be nice :-)On How legislators can help the rural posted 2 years, 3 months ago 11 Responses