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To: DoughtyOne

Care makes an excellent point. Imagine you’re a farmer; you borrow to buy seed, work the soil, raise a crop and are about to sell what you’ve raised. The next day, free food arrives. What’s the value of your crop ?


10 posted on 08/20/2007 6:45:55 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

plant poppies and sell drugs, get food from else where

work for Afghanistan


17 posted on 08/20/2007 6:48:45 AM PDT by sure_fine ( • not one to over kill the thought process)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Care makes an excellent point. Imagine you’re a farmer; you borrow to buy seed, work the soil, raise a crop and are about to sell what you’ve raised. The next day, free food arrives. What’s the value of your crop ?

You mean like our farmers and welfare state?

20 posted on 08/20/2007 6:50:25 AM PDT by fella ( newspapers used habitually to poison the public opinion)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I agree.


21 posted on 08/20/2007 6:51:27 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I’m surprised you actually believe that little story. This is about skimming bags of money, not bags of wheat.


28 posted on 08/20/2007 7:00:01 AM PDT by Kirkwood
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