tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238534.post1792714453293499592..comments2023-11-05T04:35:19.263-05:00Comments on Faceless Bureaucrat: Love Those Free MarketersBill Harshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02094598931693185805noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238534.post-14208229834343549402015-04-19T19:52:38.908-04:002015-04-19T19:52:38.908-04:00Federal crop insurance is a total upside down safe...Federal crop insurance is a total upside down safety net targeting the largest farmers with the greatest government benefits and providing the greatest profit guarantees during periods of higher market prices. In fact recently these schemes provided massive profitability guarantees to farmers throughout the country growing corn. What could be more insane than the government providing massive profit guarantees during periods of high prices in exchange for highly subsidised premiums that farmers have to pay only a small amount for?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238534.post-33150570475292997912012-02-17T15:28:09.442-05:002012-02-17T15:28:09.442-05:00"No one predicted that terrorists would take ...<i>"No one predicted that terrorists would take over airplanes"</i><br /><br />Don't you hate it when people say that? It was predicted. I'm sure there were government officials who foresaw it. I predicted it in July of 1995 to my wife. She remembered when 9/11 rolled around. Airplanes are a very logical tool of terrorism. I guess Massery doesn't have much imagination.<br /><br />Crop insurance I have no idea on. My crops aren't insured. Ice storm of 1998 cost us a million (or more). Four days of listening to the next 30 years of timber fall to the ground. Life happens. If I'm lucky it keeps happening.Walter Jeffrieshttp://sugarmtnfarm.com/blognoreply@blogger.com