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?
read the entire article linked it puts the best spin on the context that they can.