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• Poll: Why won't Americans take "dirty jobs"?

  Thu Nov 10, 2011
  • They went through this back in the 1960's ! They got rid of the Bracero program that brought up Mexicans at slave wages and slave level housing.

• Lawmakers open to changes in military benefits

  Sat Oct 22, 2011
  • Yes it is amazing - you send soldiers int a war and they get shot at and wounded.

• Monsanto’s dominance draws antitrust inquiry

  Sun Nov 29, 2009
  • I do not think that the proper use of the technology is bad by itself. It is not as new as they would like you to believe, as the technique happens naturally if not in so directed a manner.

• Monsanto’s dominance draws antitrust inquiry

  Sun Nov 29, 2009
  • Do not mistake the Bush Administration for "The Government". It would be like mistaking a disease for the person dying from it. It is the patient we need to save, and the disease that needs the fighting.

• Monsanto’s dominance draws antitrust inquiry

  Sun Nov 29, 2009
  • The whole point is that "not dealing with Monsanto" is not an option. Unless you can raise a crop totally isolated from any field with Monsanto seed, then your seed will be contaminated by Monsanto and they will sue you for owning it.

• Monsanto’s dominance draws antitrust inquiry

  Sun Nov 29, 2009
  • This is patently (pun slightly intended) not true. Farmers who act as farmers have for tens of thousands of years and save part of their crop for next years seed are the ones affected.

• Monsanto’s dominance draws antitrust inquiry

  Sun Nov 29, 2009
  • This anti-trust is exactly about what has been done to your food without you knowing. And you would not even know that if it were not for the Internet folk talking about what has been done to your food without your knowing.

• Monsanto’s dominance draws antitrust inquiry

  Sun Nov 29, 2009
  • May you be plagued with thieves, run over by crazy drivers, poisoned by careless manufacturers of anything you buy because you have no choice of where or what to buy because there is only MalWart, and you can't sue them because of tort "reform" and planting the seeds from that tomato you bought gets …

• Monsanto’s dominance draws antitrust inquiry

  Sun Nov 29, 2009
  • That would be the Bush Administration and their cronies still embedded in most of the Bureaucracy. This is a change of policy that has taken over a year to overturn, along with thousands more like them and subversion by embedded Bushies attending any attempt to make things right.

• Monsanto’s dominance draws antitrust inquiry

  Sun Nov 29, 2009
  • This article white washes the real issues, and points at the entire phoniness of Monsanto's position. They have patented a gene they found naturally growing, and are now suing anyone who has seed contaminated with that gene.