http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/07/07/africa-at-the-threshold/ Tue, 21 May 2013 09:53:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/07/07/africa-at-the-threshold/comment-page-1/#comment-18047 Anubis Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:31:20 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=4418#comment-18047 Thank you J. John, agricultural subsidies aren't going away. Con Agra, Archer Midland Daniels, Pioneer and a host of others contribute heavily to Congress's political war chests. There clearly is no support in congress to do away with agricultural subsidies. The President can't figure out how to close Guantanamo because he lacks Congressional support. Maybe you should address the issues J's commentary brings up in your next post. I would like to hear your positions on the issues that will determine the fate of the U.S. in the coming generation. Thank you J. John, agricultural subsidies aren’t going away. Con Agra, Archer Midland Daniels, Pioneer and a host of others contribute heavily to Congress’s political war chests. There clearly is no support in congress to do away with agricultural subsidies. The President can’t figure out how to close Guantanamo because he lacks Congressional support. Maybe you should address the issues J’s commentary brings up in your next post. I would like to hear your positions on the issues that will determine the fate of the U.S. in the coming generation.

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/07/07/africa-at-the-threshold/comment-page-1/#comment-18032 J Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:44:43 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=4418#comment-18032 Did this guy catch malaria or dengi fever over there? We cannot even put our own house in order. We need to immediately stop all subsidies to foreign governments, our own corporations (esp. big agribusiness), and radically downsize our military expenditures until we can balance the national check book, pay down our national debt to a respectable percent of GDP, afford to keep our citizens healthy, fix our sewers, roads, bridges, electrical grid, dams and levees. Otherwise in 20 years it will be the USA with emissaries running around the globe with a hat in hand. Did this guy catch malaria or dengi fever over there? We cannot even put our own house in order. We need to immediately stop all subsidies to foreign governments, our own corporations (esp. big agribusiness), and radically downsize our military expenditures until we can balance the national check book, pay down our national debt to a respectable percent of GDP, afford to keep our citizens healthy, fix our sewers, roads, bridges, electrical grid, dams and levees. Otherwise in 20 years it will be the USA with emissaries running around the globe with a hat in hand.

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