Underfunded Farm Bill Programs?


	Underfunded Farm Bill Programs?

urbanlife

11-20-2007 10:49 AM

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farm bill, farmers, overproduction, rural

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11-21-2007 4:40 AM

pokkets

They make promises, without saying where the money is coming from, or if it is there. No doubt they have no idea how much money there is. Everyone knows politicians can't be held to their word, but they are the same words that attract the votes. Honesty, voting, democracy, and freedom, don't belong in the same paragraph, apart from remote associations

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