Reply #9: Another bunch screwed by Bush.....

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It was a dirty job and Bush was just the guy to do it, I guess. Everybody else in either party has been terrified of the sugar lobby since long before I was born. As a result we've paid quite a respectable multiple of the world sugar price for most of a century and had to choke down "corn sweetners" instead of cane sugar in most every canned product you'd care to name.

I just wish they'd tell the US sugar industry that they've got five years to find some other line of business then drop the bloody sugar tariffs completely. Bush hasn't got that kind of nerve though. I don't think anybody has.