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so why is it a bad thing he is buying farmland? i dont get it. what are they going to do with it? just asking

While I don't know what it is, I'd be willing to bet that it's somehow tied in to Obama's recently-announced "Rural Council".

“Rural Council”
first that popped into my head, too.

Farm land the next bubble? I wish

http://bonfiresblog.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/the-new-%E2%80%98white-house-rural-council%E2%80%99-executive-order-13575/

White House Rural Council Members:

The “Leader” of the pack will be no other than USDA Vilsack (Uncle Sam Destroying Agriculture). Those of us that are wondering where this is going call him the “Hick Czar”.

* (1) the Department of the Treasury; Timothy Geithner
* (2) the Department of Defense; Robert Gates
* (3) the Department of Justice; Eric Holder
* (4) the Department of the Interior; Ken Salazar
* (5) the Department of Commerce; Gary Locke
* (6) the Department of Labor; Hilda Solis
* (7) the Department of Health and Human Services; Kathleen Sebelius
* (8) the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Shaun Donovan
* (9) the Department of Transportation; Ray LaHood
* (10) the Department of Energy; Dr. Steven Chu
* (11) the Department of Education; Arne Duncan
* (12) the Department of Veterans Affairs; Eric Shinseki
* (13) the Department of Homeland Security; Janet Napolitano
* (14) the Environmental Protection Agency; Lisa Jackson
* (15) the Federal Communications Commission; Michael Copps
* (16) the Office of Management and Budget; Peter Orszag
* (17) the Office of Science and Technology Policy; John Holdren
* (18) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; R. Gil Kerlikowske
* (19) the Council of Economic Advisers; Austan Goolsbee
* (20) the Domestic Policy Council; Melody Barnes (former VP at Center for American Progress)
* (21) the National Economic Council; Gene B. Sperling
* (22) the Small Business Administration; Karen Mills
* (23) the Council on Environmental Quality; Nancy Sutley
* (24) the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs; Valerie Jarrett
* (25) the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs; and such other executive branch departments, agencies, and offices as the President or Secretary of Agriculture may, from time to time, designate. Chris Lu (or virtually anyone to be designated by the 24 people named above)

I guess after these “Advisors” are finished out here in the sticks, we’ll be havin’ all them there modern thangs that make these places an amazing place to live: Washington D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, - you know - the “progressive-type” stuff so as we can stop clinging to our Guns and Reeeligon.

Yes indeed.