Sometimes I do agree with our elected leaders. Here, for example, I agree with one of the architect of the disastrous Farm Bill - this Bill is very hard to justify…
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson (D-Minn.) acknowledged that the payments are “very hard to explain to our urban colleagues.” But negotiators, under pressure [...]
Not that President Bush is so great, he definitely isn’t. But I’ll applaud him if he will actually veto this monster:
President George W. Bush will veto the farm bill proposed by congressional agriculture leaders because it exceeds spending guidelines and offers no “real reform,” Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said.
“At a time of record farm income, [...]