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US TAX DOLLARS AT WORK AGAIN!!

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Anonymous

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I think D.C. forgets that we produce any crops or livestock.....
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US lawmakers urged to oppose food aid commodities plan

Friday, 24/03/2006

US farm groups are angry at a plan by the Bush administration to spend almost a quarter of its main food aid program on Australian and European commodities.

Wheat, soy, rice and other minor crops are involved.

The groups have written to US lawmakers urging them to oppose the Bush administration's plan to buy food aid commodities from Australia and others, closer to needy areas like South-East Asia.

US Wheat Associates' Dawn Forsythe says the proposal amounts to as much as $305 million.

"Twenty-five per cent of the budget would be purchased elsewhere. Now, we have a problem with that ... with US taxpayer money going to buy competitors' products," she said.

Ms Forsythe argues it probably is not coincidental that Australia and France, two of America's largest competitors in wheat, are fighting to dismantle US food aid programs in the World Trade Organisation.
 

Disagreeable

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US farm groups are angry at a plan by the Bush administration to spend almost a quarter of its main food aid program on Australian and European commodities.

Takes our taxes and buys our competitors ag products? What a guy. :roll:
 
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Disagreeable said:
US farm groups are angry at a plan by the Bush administration to spend almost a quarter of its main food aid program on Australian and European commodities.

Takes our taxes and buys our competitors ag products? What a guy. :roll:

Problem is they did this before- bought all the wheat Afghanistan needed from Pakistan-- and before that Clinton did it when he was President...

What did GW say in the state of the Union speach-- Buy American :???:
 

jigs

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stevec,
I am wearing black wranglers and a white collared shirt with a bolo tie to church today, my belt is brown. should I wear my black or brown boots?
also, how many squirts of Stetson will mask the faint odor of dog manure I will enevitably step in on my way there, but yet be subtle enough as to not offend my fellow worshipers?

thanks, you seem to know everything and explain it to us so well and repeatedly, I thought you would be the best one to ask.
 

theHiredMansWife

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and before that Clinton did it when he was President...

Very true. And people didn't hesitate to squawk about Clinton. Why are there so many who give Bush a slide on the exact same things? :???:

I just don't get how people can be this blindly devoted to someone they haven't given birth to...
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Silver

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Seems to me the food aid thing is about helping starving people overseas, not here. If we really want to help these people, buying the food abroad makes the dollar go alot farther than buying it here. That might not be popular but it's true.
 
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