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To: Cicero

You remain unsurprised. As an aside, it was Ted Cruz who told the Iowa farmers that the ethanol subsidy was a bad idea.

Corn-based ethanol has driven UP the price of corn to such a degree, that without the subsidy, the corn-based ethanol would not be economically feasible for use as a motor fuel. A side effect of that was to also make the price of simple staple foods in Mexico, like corn-flour tortillas, so expensive that the peasants are flocking north to get into the US, and sending their children on ahead as “anchors”.

I still believe in Scott Walker, and hail his courage in making Wisconsin into a “right to work” state. The unions are going to have to start making their pitch to potential members on the basis of what the members would choose, not on coercion and threats, both implied and physical.


13 posted on 03/11/2015 12:57:59 PM PDT by alloysteel (It isn't science, it's law. Rational thought does not apply.)
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To: alloysteel

OK, thanks. It takes a lot of guts to tell people in Iowa that you are opposed to the ethanol scam. They know it’s a scam, but it brings in a fair amount of money to the factory farmers in the farm states.


17 posted on 03/11/2015 1:45:12 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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