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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 03:08 PM
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20. You still have blinders on
A dirt poor farmer in Honduras has no intention of selling tomatoes to Americans. That farmer wants to raise corn for his family and sell excess in local markets. However, our Farm Bill has subsidized our corn prices to such low levels and this "Free" Trade Agreement you support allows this cheap corn to flow into the Honduran farmer's market thus pricing him out of his own market.

Your tax dollars are going to bankrupt Honduran farmers. Your tax dollars are also going to robber baron factory farm owners pockets.

Yet YOU stand on the boarder with your guns threatening to shoot any immigrating Honduran farmer you just threw out of his home.
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