i forgot to add this:
when a farmer dies, his children sell off the farm to developers. the money they get is more than they would get working their butts off for years, maybe the rest of their lives. as a result there are fewer farms and more people to feed. with fewer farms, can this country really feed us all anymore? only if we eat more sparingly than we do. i know i eat more than my share. we really want it all. more food, more variety and lower prices, less pollution and less guilt, more work for our workers, more benefits but lower taxes. ask anyone in europe and see how they live and what it costs them. if gas were more expensive, we would buy less from arab countries. we would walk or ride bikes. our kids would not be fat. we could save money. we would thumb our noses. we would plan our driving tasks.
we wouldn't have to deal with people who want to kill us. who wants to be first? raise your hand :mrgreen:
enough preaching.