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Farm bill irresponsible

"We have our representative government in Washington to blame for our higher food prices, as well as our escalating fuel prices."

Would you want a dictatorship? Are you attacking representative government?

it's election year pandering. Food prices are going through the roof, yet we are paying corporate farms to let land sit idle. There is no need for any of this. What Eisenhower's secretary of agriculture said was true, if we ever started doling out farm subsidies, we'd never be able to stop (or something to that effect). Hopefully Bush can get enough of his party to switch their votes and sustain his veto.

The family farmer is in the minority. The vast majority of food production is in the hands of agribusiness.

The major agribusinesses feel that anything other than payments to do nothing with their land is creeping socialism.

It all depends on whose ox is being gored on how we view things.

It seems to me that everyone wants their own thing from the government and anyone elses attempt is socialism.