Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

So more individual and community self sufficiency. Live Local. If you don't
have much cash income, you don't owe income tax, and you don't make the
rich richer. If you don't buy stuff you don't pay sales tax. What you do
buy can often be recycled, like our house, our old Toyota van and old Ford
pickup. Buying second hand doesn't add one bit of embedded energy to them;
they're already built, sold and resold. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. 
--Henry David Thoreau 

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On 4/29/2007 at 12:04 PM activism98201@verizon.net wrote:

>Hope and market-reality can conflict.
>
>I didn't state what I hoped for or what I wanted, I was indicating
>caution.  People need to consider that these [US] agri-fuel businesses
>have a huge leg up with existing (and likely increasing) subsidies!
>
>Reflect on the fact that Hummers are subsidized by the US government. 
>They US government (run by the wealthy elites) will continue to subsidize
>the rich.  They'll also ensure that THEY get their food as well.  All the
>while food (never mind the fuel, as it'll become too expensive for the
>lower classes) will become more expensive (read "more difficult to
>obtain") for the majority.
>
>Forced to break up (monopolies)?  Two words: revolving door.  The same
>folks who oversee the conduct of business are the very folks who are major
>stakeholders.
>
>Again, I believe that I offered a direction on this, and that's to NOT
>purchase goods that travel long distances.  Food prices MUST go up NOW in
>order to stave off attacks by the agri-fuel business.  Once they have
>control of all of our farmland it's going to be too late (the only
>correction is then likely from a major revolution with reallocation of
>land).
>
>
>-Mark Nagel
>Everett, WA