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From: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Why are we at war with USSR? - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 2-Apr-84 15:45:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  2 15:45:40 1984
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	dew says that the program he saw on TV said that as a resuult
of a 'big grain deal' in which Nixon sold ALL of the US's surplus grain
to the USSR, grain prices sky-rocketed here.

	I'm skeptical.  It seems to me that selling our surplus grain to
one of our standard buyers would cause the price of the non-surplus grain
to go DOWN, not up, since the world supply is then greater, while the
demand remains the same.

	Also, if the grain was really surplus, and we had all the farmers
were goinf to sell us anyway, how in the world could our prices go up??

	Also, in the US bought it as surplus, it certainly wasn't going
to sell it on the US market and defeat the whole purpose of buying it in
the first place. So again, how could this have caused our prices to go up?