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The u.s./china trade war has been hard on farmers. and another issue is causing frustration with the corn lobby. and that is biofuel. corn growers have sent a letter to the president, saying the bio fuel waivers has reduced demand for their crops. they say frustration in the countryside is growing. whats happening here? refiners have to burn a certain amount of corn products to meet government standards. but the epa has been granting waivers. last month, they granted 31 fav waivers to small refi...

Manufacturing industry in this country. there are other lobbies, we know that. theres a pharma lobby, theres a corn lobby. we use drugs and we eat corn but we dont have a membership card that says youre a part of that lobby. we dont like it when those lobbies write our legislation but thats kind of what the nra is doing. we need to start to think of the nra not just as a membership organization, which it may or may not be, but as the gun lobby in america. i agree, i dont know why companies would...

Any that has historically influenced politics. the gun lobby, aka the nra. the nrment a claims mentnra cl membership organization, but they wont release their data. im a gun owner. every year i receive a membership card from the nra with a membership number. ive never asked for one. ive never paid for one. but i strongly suspect that i am counted in the secret records of the nra as a member. im not. they dont represent me and i suspect they dont represent and arent paid for by a lot of members. ...

France an every four years in the united states in the eye with a caucuses when politicians of both parties have to bow to the corn lobby. as you pointed out if you look at 80% of the water 2% of the gdp the numbers are ridiculous. >> right, bill. >>. >> when it combs to crony capitalism i think the farmers have nothing on the greens to did two things, first of all they blocked the construction of if you reservoirs and is secondly they persuaded the government that the natural way to help would ...

And bottom line, surface of the earth should be grown for food and below the surface where you get the energy. no way it will amount to the mere fraction of the future and current energy needs . brazil is relying more on oil and gas and less on ithnol. >> i think al gore was against subsidies for ethanoyl. >> they are subsidies for the corn lobby and al gore probably doesnt support a lobby to give money to red state farmers. it is a time when as events in japan have shown. nuclear is probably of...

Government much like a bank would, the corn lobby and arch daniels and meddlon and the rest of them is making money selling corn which is good for people or not, a fair assessment? >> that is absolutely correct. >> that is absolutely fair. and thats why i think it is important for people within the administration go at ways of curbing that influence with the power that they have and it might seem small but having the first lady say to schools and say to children, you know there are alternatives ...

Salt and other feeds that are feeding into the obesity problem but also feeding into other health problems that then feed into other issues, like health, health care in the insurance -- >> health of costs, et cetera. >> exactly, exactly. >> is shaming adequate in your view. >> i was just fixing to saysing, jonathan, in chicago its known as the chicago way making them an offer they cant refuse. you know, its great for the first lady to do this and i think its -- we, both of our papers have endors...