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  1. quote:
    one of the good things about rent controlled apartments is that it keeps a lot of old school nyc nutcases around.”

    It also limits supply and drives up the prices for everyone else.

    well, explain Boston? when they did away with rent control it had zero effect. in fact prices went UP! on paper it sounds like it might be right, but im not so sure, as are many other people. of course i do not have a degree in economics or urban planning.

    *rob*

  2. Just don’t want it thrown in your face that you are not fulfilling your place in society by breeding like you should be doing so I can have someone pay for my social security?

    Posted by: Petebklyn at March 3, 2010 11:30 AM

    Social Security? What’s that? OOOHH you mean that crap they take out of my paycheck every two weeks that I’ll never see again?

  3. It’s the explosion in the last 10 years I was talking about. I grew up in corn country. I’m not against GE, I’m against the fact that people now are paid to plant seeds(and put signs in a field) to get market share up. For stock prices.

    This is the kind of thing that makes me very happy to pay extra for organic.

    Anyway, what was the point of the post? I did indeed miss it.

  4. “keep me away from that baby thread” —
    Just don’t want it thrown in your face that you are not fulfilling your place in society by breeding like you should be doing so I can have someone pay for my social security?

  5. Ringo, I just threw it out there to get people riled up. it did. Though your points are understandable, you missed the point of what i posted.

    And, corn has been genetically modified for the past 40 years. How do you think we’ve gotten from yields of 50 bushels per acre to 150?

    Ever see the Pioneer Hybrid and SeKalb signs all over the crop fields?? They have been breeding corn (genetically) for decades. Were it not for genetic advances in corn, wheat & soybeans, we wouldn’t be producing a third of what we are now.

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