http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/04/but-well-miss-your-contributions-to-society-so-much Comments On: But We'll Miss Your Contributions to Society So Much, Rural and Undereducated Conservatives! by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 12:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Cascadian Bacon]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:27:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Chris in Vancouver WA]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:30:04 -0800 The Stranger
"That's the third-world, honey. Now finish you dinner. People in Texas are starving."
Posted by Free Lunch]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:06:06 -0800 The Stranger
If cheep food is the goal, we could just go for Soylent Green and eat for free.
Posted by SuperSteve]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:00:28 -0800 The Stranger
99% of Republicans wouldn't know the first thing about farming or whatever idiot romantic notion those idiots have about being "makers."

My family are 4th generation farmers in south eastern Idaho. Not only are they democrats but the percentage of ANY party in their "rural" county, or any other, that are actual farmers is minuscule. Most work at Monsanto or other corporations. Just like everywhere else.

The overwhelming percentage of Republicans in these secession movements are suburbanites with shit jobs or social security collecting "deadbeats." Nobody would miss their stupid asses.
Posted by tkc]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:17:52 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Proteus]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:00:02 -0800 The Stranger Well... bye.
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:24:08 -0800 The Stranger
Does that 5% include the subsidies? Without the subsidies, would prices "skyrocket" to a level higher than what we pay for food, including the subsidies? Why would that be?

Removing the subsidies introduces instability, which makes life harder for the farmers. Food consumers could still stabilize prices with food stamps. And you know the food stamp program would expand with a Congress not hamstrung by the red states. I don't see a problem on the consumer end.
Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:16:12 -0800 The Stranger
If you can't convince the rest of your state, you can renounce your own citizenship: don't let the border door hit your ass on the way out of the country.
Posted by judybrowni]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:08:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Gurldoggie]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:06:15 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sperifera]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:33:46 -0800 The Stranger
If, in some alternate universe, they were actually allowed to secede, they'd shit their pants well within 6 months and come crying back to momma.

There's not a chance in hell they'd survive on their own.
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:28:56 -0800 The Stranger sounds about 2 percent low.
Posted by Warren Terra]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:15:17 -0800 The Stranger
I don't know that the Republicans have anyone, singularly or as a coalition to tell the crazy, non-governing, nü-Conservative, radically regressive, insular idiots to sit down and shut up in a way that might rescue the party from their outsize influence.

The worst part is, I don't think that this spells doom for the Republican party as enough of the electorate simply votes R, that they can make it the rest of the way with smoke and mirrors, money, gerrymandering and suppression.
Posted by It's Gangrenous: Amputation Or Death]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:14:57 -0800 The Stranger
Something like 5% of our incomes goes to feeding ourselves. This is a monument of human achievement. Eliminating the subsidies would send food prices skyrocketing, essentially damning lots of poor people to starvation, and would dump a ton of middle-class families right back into poverty. The economic impacts of this would be profound and terrible.

I am happy to subsidize our food supply. Because I care about the middle class and the poor. Why is it that healthcare should be subsidized (as I am sure most of you believe), and food should not be?

Posted by Theodore Gorath]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:13:32 -0800 The Stranger
Suck it up. We're in this together.
Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:46:59 -0800 The Stranger
You mean miss subsiding their farms. Take away all the tax dollars from cities keeping farmers in business, and either they, or whomever buys their land from them, will have no choice but to sell food on the open market. It's not like there's some other food consumer market with more money to spend than the liberal US cities.
Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:45:35 -0800 The Stranger Posted by douchus]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:44:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Max Solomon]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:27:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Matt the Engineer]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:27:34 -0800 The Stranger Posted by California Kid]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:22:43 -0800 The Stranger