Posted by (+1557) 12 years ago
[This message has been edited by gypsykim (6/30/2010)]
Butz implored America's farmers to plant their fields "fence row to fence row" and set about dismantling 40 years of farm policy designed to prevent overproduction. He shuttered the ever-normal granary, dropped the target price for grain and inaugurated a new subsidy system, which eventually replaced nonrecourse loans with direct payments to farmers. The distinction may sound technical, but in effect it was revolutionary. For instead of lending farmers money so they could keep their grain off the market, the government offered to simply cut them a check, freeing them to dump their harvests on the market no matter what the price.
The new system achieved exactly what it was intended to: the price of food hasn't been a political problem for the government since the Nixon era. Commodity prices have steadily declined, and in the perverse logic of agricultural economics, production has increased, as farmers struggle to stay solvent. As you can imagine, the shift from supporting agricultural prices to subsidizing much lower prices has been a boon to agribusiness companies because it slashes the cost of their raw materials. That's why Big Food, working with the farm-state Congressional delegations it lavishly supports, consistently lobbies to maintain a farm policy geared to high production and cheap grain.
Today. Or be honest and admit you are too selfish to stop.
People who are critical of others habits are annoying and immature
I really wish there was more being done about young smokers.
Nathan, don't you have some weed to go smoke? I seriously suggest you lay off. Your not capable of having an open dialogue. you just want a heated argument. You must be inexperienced.
People who are critical of others habits are annoying and immature
$1800 dollars a year, if I put that away in a college fund for my daughter, she would have almost 29,000 dollars when she turned 18.