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Big Government Kills the Family Farm
Townhall.com ^ | August 29, 2011 | Jeff Carter

Posted on 08/29/2011 8:34:38 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 08/29/2011 8:34:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Government regulation is always a slippery slope.
Government regulation is FORMERLY a slippery slope.

Under Obama it's a BULLET TRAIN TO SOCIALISM.

2 posted on 08/29/2011 8:37:04 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Kaslin

bttt


3 posted on 08/29/2011 8:40:20 AM PDT by Pelham ("Resist we much!" - Al 'Jiffypop' Sharpton)
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To: Kaslin

Big govt is killing the family business, too...

November 2012 cant come soon enough...hopefully, it will bring about a change in attitude and a change in direction.

If not, bye bye America as we once knew it.


4 posted on 08/29/2011 9:12:00 AM PDT by Former MSM Viewer
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I had a phone conversation 20 years ago with Congressmen Grassley. In talking about the family farm he said, “We've been trying to save the family farm for 50 years, have we gotten any closer?”

Government subsidized crop insurance has been the new fashion for the last several years, all it does is take the risk out of farming and that is driving the $600 per acre rent in my opinion. Much like taking the risk out of house mortgages......................

5 posted on 08/29/2011 9:18:09 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( getting closer to the truth.................)
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To: Kaslin

The organic farming movement is NOT the way to feed the world. However, shouldn’t we as citizens be free to choose what we put into our mouths?


The organic farming movement is one set of rules, controlled in Washington DC.

I at one time promoted using the ISO 9000 standards in agriculture which allowed multiple standards, you just had to prove what you said you were going to do. The customer then decided if that was good enough.


6 posted on 08/29/2011 9:21:21 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( getting closer to the truth.................)
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Why should the "family farm" be more important than the "family gas station" or the "family insurance agency"?Let them compete without subsidies, or excessive regulation.

The incredible efficiencies of large farming has had alot to do with the disappearing family farm. Most small farmers I know do it because they love farming even though it is marginal from a business standpoint. That's their choice.

7 posted on 08/29/2011 9:28:49 AM PDT by Prokopton
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To: Kaslin

More leftist cognitive dissonance.

They’re all-in for the “family farm,” freedom from ridiculous Gov’t intervention, organic food, etc..., yet it seems many are happy to have Obama and his ilk takeover Gov’t health-care, increasing the budgets of EPA and FDA by 30% per year, etc...

They don’t seem to realize these all have the same root.


8 posted on 08/29/2011 9:32:30 AM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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To: PGR88

Government is killing America.

Every move they make, every step they take.


9 posted on 08/29/2011 9:58:06 AM PDT by listenhillary (Look your representatives in the eye and ask if they intend to pay off the debt. They will look away)
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To: Kaslin

so where is John Cougar Mellencamp with the whiny album and the benefit concerts?


10 posted on 08/29/2011 10:07:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin
Big government is killing the family farmer.

Precisely as laid out in the U.N.'s Agenda 21


11 posted on 08/29/2011 10:36:39 AM PDT by Roninf5-1
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To: samtheman

In a communist society, there must be no alternative to working for the communist party, and that includes supporting yourself on your own land.

The more I study the aspects and goals of communists,
the less it is possible to deny what I see the left/democRats doing in our country.


12 posted on 08/29/2011 11:14:33 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Kaslin
I like farmers, but the truth is we've been losing farming jobs for a lot longer than 20 years. And big government has very little to do with it.

Automation, large scale farming, and improved farming techniques have had a lot more to do with it, than big government.

A family farmer is not going to be able to farm the same small plot of his ancestors did, producing little more than they did and still be able to buy that satellite dish and a modern car, and a college education for their kids, etc. If they aren't going to produce much more than their ancestors, then their standard of living is not going to be much better either.

13 posted on 08/29/2011 11:15:05 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Buckeye McFrog

When it was the bankers (ie, not the government) taking the farms, that’s a problem,

but when it’s the government doing it, well, of course, they always have “the greater good” as their motivation.


14 posted on 08/29/2011 11:15:40 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: DannyTN

Actually, it has a lot to do with government.

Go back and review the history of SecAg Earl Butz under Nixon, who set in motion policies that led to the farming crash of the mid-80’s.

Government has been meddling in farming in a big way since the days of Herbert Hoover.


15 posted on 08/29/2011 11:40:37 AM PDT by NVDave
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To: Buckeye McFrog

the same John Cougar Mellencamp who once said free speech is a “collective” and not individual right?


16 posted on 08/29/2011 12:03:04 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: MrB

Include this in your studies, if you haven’t done so already:

http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/famine.html


17 posted on 08/29/2011 12:09:47 PM PDT by samtheman
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To a certain degree, that’s what I see the Iowa and Missouri flooding as - a government caused destruction of productive farmland.


18 posted on 08/29/2011 1:13:45 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

Please include the irrigation shut down in Central California which plunged the Central valley into a depression with 70% unemployment in some areas, and the destruction of a considerable number of fruit and nut orchards there.


19 posted on 08/29/2011 1:20:59 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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Definitely, and over a SMELT. A friggin’ BAIT FISH.
And the numbers of these smelt did NOT increase appreciably due to these actions, either.


20 posted on 08/29/2011 1:25:22 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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