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06-24-2012, 05:42 PM   #1
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Mitt Romney Visits Subsidized Farms, Knocks Big Government Spending

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In front of federally subsidized cows, Romney reiterated his opposition to big-government spending. Wayne Barrett speaks to the cows’ owners, who say they dislike Obama even while they take government money.
Mitt Romney Visits Subsidized Farms, Knocks Big Government Spending - The Daily Beast

The farmer's wife says she didn't like Obama even before he was elected, but she can't quite pin down what she likes about Romney. Hmm...

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QuoteOriginally posted by boriscleto Quote
Mitt Romney Visits Subsidized Farms, Knocks Big Government Spending - The Daily Beast

The farmer's wife says she didn't like Obama even before he was elected, but she can't quite pin down what she likes about Romney. Hmm...
Idiocracy at it's finest..........

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Jeff and Karen Zuck, who own the 160-acre, 117-head dairy farm that was Romney’s chosen backdrop for the rare non-Fox interview, have collected $195,631 in federal subsidies since 1995. The $44,549 in grants they got in 2009, Barack Obama’s first year in office, was almost twice their previous high in 2002, and was a consequence of the heightened subsidies the Obama administration rushed to deliver as milk prices plummeted in the recession. Only 20 farms in subsidy-rich Lebanon County, Penn., received more federal aid than the Zucks in 2009, and only 30 exceeded the Zuck subsidy over the prior decade and a half. But the farm didn’t even appear on the top 50 list in George W. Bush’s final year in office, when they received a measly $1,177 in subsidies, less than three percent of what Obama gave them the next year.

Regardless, Karen Zuck told The Daily Beast that she and her husband back Romney.
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Idiocracy at it's finest..........
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes...
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Scientific research (game theory) has shown that humans have a very strong reciprocity drive. In practice this resolves into a turn-taking with trust strategy as the ideal, though with a punitive component towards those who don't reciprocate. It has been shown that people will act counter to self interest in order to punish those they feel are 'freeloading' or otherwise not reciprocating.

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Scientific research (game theory) has shown that humans have a very strong reciprocity drive. In practice this resolves into a turn-taking with trust strategy as the ideal, though with a punitive component towards those who don't reciprocate. It has been shown that people will act counter to self interest in order to punish those they feel are 'freeloading' or otherwise not reciprocating.
And freeloading means.. them.. not me........
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The Bachmanns get 300K a year in *big ag subsidies* on land they aren't even hiring anyone to farm, but rather trying to sell for sprawl 'development.'

While they try to make profit margins for agribusiness bigger by any other means than actually feeding people.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Nesster Quote
Scientific research (game theory) has shown that humans have a very strong reciprocity drive. In practice this resolves into a turn-taking with trust strategy as the ideal, though with a punitive component towards those who don't reciprocate. It has been shown that people will act counter to self interest in order to punish those they feel are 'freeloading' or otherwise not reciprocating.
I (vaguely ) seem to recall experiments where the general idea was akin to: "Ok. Here is $100. You and <some other person unknown to you> are going to have it, but we need you to agree on our proposal of how it split up between you two or else neither of you won't get any. ... ". It was found that if the other person was getting an 'unfair' share, say $80, people would tend to walk away from the $20.

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