RNN story: VP Gore meets black dirt farmers

This was a RNN news story taped in late 1999. It was about my wife Eve, my brother Brian and I meeting Vice President Gore at LaGuardia Airport during his presidential run. We discussed our problems at the time with the federal crop insurance program and our crop losses over the years. His hands were very soft, like butter, and he smelled very fresh.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• onions
• crop insurance
• Vice President Gore
• disaster aid
• black dirt
• Orange County New York
• Chris Pawelski
• Eve Pawelski
• Brian Pawelski
• RNN

[buyguns1]

why should these millionaire onion farmers get anything? my business is suffering, i get no bailout! what a bunch of bs

[ChrisPawelski]

@buyguns1 My more detailed reply is below, dolt, but if you need something even easier to understand, which you obviously didn't grasp from the video, I will gladly send it to you in the form of a coloring book, with crayons!

[buyguns1]

@ChrisPawelski scammer

[ChrisPawelski]

@buyguns1 Wow, your well thought, articulate and reasoned response backed with credible evidence blew me away ... douchebag.

[ChrisPawelski]

"Millionaire onion farmers?" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! That's very funny! You don't have a fraction of a clue as to what you are talking about. We aren't "millionaires" and we are in a business facing consolidation or concentration on both ends, meaning our inputs and outlets are consolidating into fewer sources. Further, while our our costs have risen over the years the prices we have received have not and we don't control the prices we receive.

[ChrisPawelski]

... like most of ag the farmer receives typically 20% of the retail food dollar and in this country we have one of the cheapest food prices in the world, typically spending roughly 10% of our disposable income on food. So, while our production costs have risen incredibly the average prices we have received for our crop has not changed IN OVER 20 YERAS AND WE CAN'T RAISE OUR PRICE IN TIMES OF WEATHER DISASTERS! Is that the same as your business? learn some facts before you blab pal.