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| Holy Jebus I’ve never been able to bend my arm back that far. It would be handy at times.
We aren’t the back bone of anything, least ways not of our doing. If our product could be outsourced as easily as the steel worker or auto maker we would all have been gone years ago.
Our biggest advantage is the ground this country happened to be founded on, then given to the people that colonized (stole?) it. The fact that giving this ground to the people resulted in a widely distributed ownership basis is why we are still here. Capitalism has been trying ever since to consolidate ownership and someday probably will.
This talk of cheap food is another fallacy we hang on to in order to choke down the money the government gives us. Anyone think this land would go un-farmed ? Social policy has been to try and keep the production decentralized, some sort of mythic family farm ideal.
Farming has probably benefited more from socialistic policies and is the least capitalistic industry than any other i can think of, going back to the Homestead act and then requiring the railroads and insurance companies to sell land off, all the way to today. Any other industry have the safety nets we have ?
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Am I the only one making money?
