Tuesday, June 22, 2004

How long? How long?

Tobacco buy-out legislation...

The sponsor of the House buyout bill, Rep. Ron Lewis (R-Ky.), said in a statement that the buyout is not a large-grower issue and would help the 8,000 tobacco growers in his district.

..."The House buyout plan is an incredible rip-off of the taxpayer, mostly to benefit a handful of large tobacco interests and tobacco companies," said Ken Cook, president of the [nonprofit Environmental Working Group study].

"I really didn't think the control of tobacco quotas would be so concentrated because I had heard and half-swallowed the rhetoric of this being about small farmers," he said. "But this is no different than with commodities like cotton and rice, where the big players control a huge part of the industry."

Cook said the Environmental Working Group released the information now about who would benefit from a quota buyout because the bill that passed the House was never debated, and will go into conference with a Senate bill that has no buyout provision. "This is a huge taxpayer-funded buyout, and so far it hasn't been debated," he said. "Before this goes any further, people need to know what the taxpayers will be paying for."
  WaPo article

Debate? You'll be lucky if they even read it.

This is a fucking broken record, people. This shit happens over and over and over. How can anyone still be buying it?

Geez. We are in hell with no way out. Every day I read another article about somebody who should damn well know better acting like they are shocked that the system fucked over everybody but the fat cats controlling the system.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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