[hedgetrimmer]

Farming is not inefficient in this country. It is a vastly over regulated enterprise.

Your understanding of the American system of government seems lacking.... It is not up to the government to force people out of business. The purpose of the government is to leave people alone to do what they want to for a living. By over regulation, they are placing a burden on the agricultural industry that other industries do not have to bear. The government is also using agriculture as a bargaining chip with Africa and Asian third world countries for trade. It is not the place of the federal government to negotiate away citizens rights at the global trade table.

Your opinions seem to be shaped by the idea that a global command economy is best for America, and I take exception to that. The globalist say that a country should produce only 25% of what it needs to function, it should import everything else. There is no freedom when an government has that much control over the lives of its citizens and the work they want to do.

[lightislife]

Central and South America will never gain much influence by selling Food and Cheap Labor. As long as we gain ground in the technology other countries will depend on to grow out of a 3rd world nation, we will remain a powerful world force. The fact is, trade barriers is over regulation. If we passed a fair tax along with Free Trade agreements, America will attract many investors that will save the USD against the unified Euro.