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exnaderite
Junior Chimp
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« on: June 26, 2010, 12:40:13 PM »
Quote from: sbane on June 26, 2010, 03:29:11 AM
Is there some massive under utilization of farmland in the midwest that I am not aware of? Otherwise I am not grasping the point you are trying to make.

Uncle Sam pays billions in subsidies for farmers *not* to grow crops, which is morally reprehensible as well as a massive waste of tax dollars.
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exnaderite
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« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2010, 05:51:07 PM »
During the Maoist era in China, a western economist visited a dam construction site, where thousands of workers are using shovels to dig the dam. He asks the supervisor why they are not using bulldozers to build the dam as it would be much easier and faster. The supervisor replies that if they used bulldozers, thousands of people will be out of work.

The economist replies, "why don't you take away their shovels and let them dig with spoons?"
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