On 2/6/06 2:25 PM, "Dave Gneiser" <bonniedave@dotnet.com> wrote:
> Surpluses depress markets not subsidies.
Cut subsidies and there would not be surpluses and why does your government
and EU buy the surpluses which props you up and builds butterbergs and
surpluses they can�t sell at the cost price so have to dump?
Anyway I don�t care if you guys subsidise yourselves silly. Subsidies breed
inefficiencies. It is the DUMPING of your subsidised surpluses that kills
other countries� producers.
A Swiss farmer client phoned last month to tell me that subsidies were being
reduced as I predicted there in 1980 and were now referred to there as
�poisons� because they�ve bred waste and killed their farming with
over-capitalisation which they now can�t get out of - buildings and
machinery costing insurance, R & M and land taxes because of increased
values, etc.
Dave learn two things -
1. Sea freight costs in the larger and larger and faster ships has hardly
increased in 25 years and is about half as much as from LA to your east so
are you going to start a campaign against land movement?
2. What New Zealand exports is at the producers� cost and the countries�
buying prices and they don�t have to buy it, except that surveys I�ve done
in shops showed that shop keepers liked to sell New Zealand products because
the quality was consistently high with NO comebacks by customers.
Please do a little research before shooting.
There are many things I could quote, but it would be releasing information
that is commercially beneficial to New Zealand.
Best wishes,
Vaughan Jones
Hamilton
New Zealand
