care to explain how this is a total lie?
did she or did she not write that letter?
Are these her words or are they making it up?
On Oct. 5, 2009, Bachmann wrote Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack praising him for injecting money into the pork industry through the form of direct government purchases. She went on to request additional assistance.
“Your efforts to stabilize prices through direct government purchasing of pork and dairy products are very much welcomed by the producers in Minnesota, and I would encourage you to take any additional steps necessary to prevent further deterioration of these critical industries, such as making additional commodity purchases and working to expand trade outlets for these and other agricultural goods,” Bachmann wrote.
Can we have some context for this extract from Bachmann’s letter to Valsick? What was done before the “direct purchase” of pork and dairy products? What alternatives were available?
The government purchase of these commodities has to be enormous ever single year. If one considers only those purchases for feeding the military on bases around the country and around the world, the cost would run into hundreds of millions of dollars. How were these products purchased before, if not “directly?”
How is it ‘socialist’ to advocate the US DAg’s expanding the market for US agricultural products?