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Some more historical perspective: Discussion of farmers and railroads is a popular topic here. Read the following passage that describes the situation in the 1870's and 1880's. Doesn't it aptly describe the situation today? "The same objections which the farmers advanced to the railroads in the seventies were even more applicable in the eighties. Railroads were large foreign corporations, controlled either by eastern or alien captial. Rates were made according to what the traffic would bear and not to the needs of the users. Personal, place, and commodity descriminations were in operation on an increased scale. "The underlying cause of the trouble between the railroads and the farmers was a lack of sympathy and understandying. The farmers talked about watered stock, excessive reates, and monopoly control, while the railroads feared governmental action and hard times. Neither made any study of the difficulties and consequent viewpoint of the other, and so they continued to work at cross purposes." [The Story of The Western Railroads, Riegel, Robert, 1926] Indeed, it seems to me that the farmers and the railroads of today (2006) are not "making a study of the difficulties of the other", much like in 1870.
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