The Dems fucked up...left 35 pages out of the bill they sent to Bush and His Evil Minions™, and so they have to vote on it all over again.
Someone should be fired over this, but they won't.
it is, i suppose, better than no bill at all. sooner, or later, the emphasis on agribusiness at the expense of smaller farmers, and the subsidizing of that agribusiness needs to be turned around.
it has been getting so that farming in this country, once the breadbasket of the world, is so concentrated in the hands of a very few, very large operators that it will become very prone to total collapse. the concentration of power and effort is damned near stalinesque. less efficient, less organized, far more local efforts are much more survivable and more responsive to hits from nature.
sooner, or later?
It will have to be sooner... One good blight will take care of that. But at tremendous cost to the world.
farming needs to be seasonal and sustainable.
luckily, big-ag is totally petroleum dependent, so they are getting screwed right now. Yeah!
Matthew Saroff: "The Dems fucked up...left 35 pages out of the bill they sent to Bush and His Evil Minions™, and so they have to vote on it all over again.
Someone should be fired over this, but they won't."
Sorry, but with over 1 MILLION dead in Iraq I don't give a rat's ass about the Farm Bill.
Gay Vet: The farm bill contained a rider cutting off funding for the Iraq war. That's why it's important. That said, I think that it should have been vetoed... because farm subsidies are nothing but corporate welfare and need to be eliminated.
I'm very disappointed that all over the left blogosphere very little of any substance has been presented about the Farm Bill. Like most Omnibus Nightmare bills that run the country, it has its goodness, its badness and its ugliness, but so little was analyzed by the bloggers and blog pundits.
It's not a glamorous issue like the sick Clinton cliff hanger I guess.
It's the kind of issue and the kind of bill that has led us to the governmental and societal catastrophe we now find ourselves in: at least that applies to those who are paying attention.
The Farm Bill is a horrifying reflection of who we are and the image isn't good. Now, with the likely passage, we'll be stuck in another bizarre and unworkable vortex for many more years.
I hope the next Congress yanks this one out of the archives and fine rakes it again. I suspect that with the upcoming economic crises they will have to do that by late next year.
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