Vote Right Live Left

[chuckChuck]

What amazes me is all the farmers who vote for free markets and smaller government while at the same time accepting subsidies all the time and bailouts when times are tough.

Most of the subsidies go to the largest farms and end up helping them get larger. In the end alot of the subsidies are designed to benefit the input suppliers and machinery dealers.

I am not sure why taxpayers should be supporting farmers and indirectly input suppliers.

[silverback]

What amazes me is anyone who would vote for and ferociously advocate for more and more government and bureaucrat control over their lives. The desire to control as much of the lives of their neighbors as possible seems to be some sort of sickness to me.

[silverback]

A subsidy to input suppliers hey chuck?

We are busy having to replace some floors on these old bins in the heat.

Tell us what our countryside would look like if we didn't have to have miniature terminals on every farm site to hold our grain for at least a year at a time? Why is it that our american cousins don't have this bin building issue?

I believe the cwb is responsible for sucking huge amounts of money out of our farm returns that have gone to building free storage for them. imho.

[Fransisco]

Okay, lets flip that around then.

What amazes me is all of the farmers who vote left and live right.

Paying the vast majority of their bills from things they successfully sell in an open market rather than from subsidy checks.

[Fransisco]

Well Mr. Johnstone perhaps it is you who is wrong.

When I look at the latest CWB producer survey here...

http://www.cwb.ca/public/en/farmers/surveys/producer/pdf/survey_062911.pdf

particularly page 18 and 21 it looks like a healthy majority of farmers are in favour of something other than the single desk.

Speaking of being afraid.

The question you should be asking is, if the board is half as popular with farmers and half as good a marketer as you think it is, why is it so afraid of a little competition? The question of course answers itself.

[silverback]

So the most important thing to him is the preservation of the cwb and not freedom of association hey?

Freedom to choose is a lot different than voting to keep your neighbors at gunpoint.

Idiot.

[checking]

Oh! wood chuckchuck. If that is all that is bothering you, then I will gladly wean myself off government subsidies since I don't know what that milk tastes like.

Now, will you give it a rest, and support my wish to sell my durum on the open free world market away from the handcuffs of the CWB?

[hedgehog]

chuck, since 2005, when production subsidies stopped in europe, the cost of all foodstuffs has rocketed in price. Consumers are now realising what they were told along, that it was them who were subsidised by farm payments, not the farmers who got them . Subsidies = cheap food surpluses

[Jfreedom]

Don't be to hard on Bruce people after all it's him
that has endure the hemorrhoids from having
Olbergs arm up there pulling the strings .

[freewheat]

Subsidies, chuck? What are you an american or German. What subsidy do the big guys get us little guys do not?