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In response to "It's interesting that people seem angry about the current bailouts, but we bail out agriculture every year. I blame the Iowa caucuses. -- nm" by Dano

People get more emotional about farmers than people working in the service industry. Hard-working, salt-of-the-earth folk who just need a break, etc

Posted by Roger More (aka RogerMore) Dec 1 '08, 09:44

And people working in farming have fewer transferable skills, so if they lose their job they're less likely to find another one soon.

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Given that farmers are small business owners they have plenty of transferable knowledge. -- nm - TWuG Dec 1, 09:51 2
- Yeah - I should have said that a farmer would face greater barriers to changing jobs than, say, someone working in the service industry - Roger More Dec 1, 09:59 1
  - Not to mention - they'd be giving up the thing they know how to do best, and that they (probably) like doing -- nm - Roger More Dec 1, 10:03
heh, thats funny. - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:48

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