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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-16-11 06:47 PM Original message |
While the poor freeze, the ethanol producers GET a one-year subsidy extension worth $6 BILLION |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-16-11 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
1. Our government is owned by these corporations. |
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FSogol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-16-11 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
2. IIRC, ADM (Archer Daniels Midland) is the main financial supporter of Newt Gingrich. n/t |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-16-11 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
3. ethanol= jeb Bush. |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-16-11 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
4. The real welfare queens in this country? The corporate slime bags. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-16-11 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
5. There you go again, begrudging them their wealth. |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-16-11 10:37 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Paul Wellstone and teddy Kennedy, the real progressive lions, gone |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-16-11 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
7. Just what the fuck is this! What in the hell! Do they think we will let them get away with this |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-16-11 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
8. Ethanol subsidies should have been killed years ago |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-17-11 12:01 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. You done good! |
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farmbo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-16-11 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
9. Forbes is a mouthpiece for Big Oil... Don't buy this crap! |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-17-11 12:00 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Hmmm, I have been against ethanol subsidies since the early part of the last decade |
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farmbo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-17-11 07:17 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Respectfully, don't accuse ethanol of causing "poor people to freeze"... |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-17-11 07:21 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. (sigh) you just didn't understand it did you? Oh well. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-17-11 09:21 AM Response to Reply #9 |
20. Ethanol is worthless. Why are you defending it? |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-17-11 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
12. so Obama's budget could find money in LIHEAP to cut it 300 million below 2008 levels |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-17-11 12:04 AM Response to Original message |
13. "Hey, frozen Granny's never gave nobody a job!" |
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yellowwood (550 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-17-11 07:27 AM Response to Original message |
16. Corn Subsidies Mostly Go to Megafarms |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-17-11 07:33 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Too many subsidies go to mega farmers period. |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-17-11 08:08 AM Response to Original message |
18. As I pick my jaw up off the keyboard, all I can mutter is - |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-17-11 09:19 AM Response to Original message |
19. AND the consumer is forced to buy the product. You can't buy pure gasoline anymore. |
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