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Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 3:51 PM ETMaybe tipping where the true power in the country lies, the Senate easily votes against a measure that would eliminate a tax break and tariff supporting domestic ethanol production. "No other product I know of has the triple crown of government support that corn ethanol has in this country," says Senator Feinstein.
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The stances of Repub Presidential hopefuls on ethanol:
Michele Bachmann: Kind of against. Has called for a re-examination of the subsidies.
Herman Cain: Supports. Has said, "Let's be honest, ethanol is not going to save this country from its dependence on foreign oil. I believe we need to take advantage of all the resources that we have and the Congressional Research Service has indicated we have plenty of resources, including ethanol."
Newt Gingrich: Supports.
Ron Paul: Against. Way against.
Tim Pawlenty: Against, wants to reform the system.
Mitt Romney: Supports, says ethanol is "an important part of our energy solution in this country."
Rick Santorum: said that his anti-ethanol subsidy stance, won't hurt him in the state because he thinks current ethanol production processes have gotten efficient enough for the companies to be "weaned off the subsidy."
Other parts of the world are suffering because of it.
Ethanol is crap, we don't need it....what a joke, using arable acres for energy instead of food......
Socialism triumphs again!
Ethanol is a wealth transfer and the cruelest kind of tax. It hits all income's equally hard! But what the hell, when your Bill Dudley and Bernanke, you can get a cheaper and if you ask me{worthless} new IPAD 45 for what you paid for the last version!
Deflation is a bitch. This is what Bernanke is PETRIFIED about.
This is disgusting, and much nearer to the end than the beginning.
Get ready to be hurt. Pain is right around the corner. Look inward, rely on each other. Look to God and or your faith. But have no doubt, the rights you will fight for in the near future are 'God Given", there is NO MAN ALIVE who you get your rights from. Not Barak Obama, not Van Jones, not George Soros. Americans are endowed with certain,"Inalienable rights" that are from God!
Be good to each other, the likes of Frances Fox Piven are counting on Americans to devolve into the animals raging for "so called democracy" in the Arab Spring burning today! Prove the progressives wrong!
Jerry
You like too many others on this board make assinine comments about things you obviously know nothing about.
The survey was about republican candidate positions.
Obviously we don't know who that will be, unlike democrats which will be Obama, hence the point.
As far as a position, listen to this video with McCains position.
www.foxnews.com/on-air...
Sorry,
My point was that too many like to get "sucked in" to the partisan game.
FACT is both sides of the aisle will do anything to buy votes.
Both sides are equally guilty.
This is not a DEM vs REPUB issue.
34 Republicans + 5 Democrats YES
45 Democrats + 13 Republicans NO
to end the subsidizing of ethanol.
You guys would not be so upset if you had a daddy and brother in the farming business. They are getting richer by the minute. And the last time I checked, Bernanke had wrecked our retirement accounts with QE-2. So it's nice to have someone to tap when we are starving to death.
I'm sure they can find a half-acre for me to pitch my tent.
These kind of boondoggles just seem to go on forever, and none of the politicians seem to have the guts to stand up to anything.
This is a practice corporations use quite a bit when expenses are out of control and there is no logic to anything. Identify the essentials and make everyone else come to the table with a business case for doing what they are doing.