The passing of the farm bill into law, was pure politics. Period. Long term economic ramifications for the farmers is bad enough. My concerns are for the taxpayer money that is funding this legislation. I told you several times I didn't agree with the farm bill, but whether it was triangulation or not, politics was at its core.
>>>There is no opinion, no interpretation, no perspective.
WRONG! That's exactly what FreeRepublic is all about. The exchange of opinions, interpretations, perspectives and FACTS! After a few exchanges it was clear, we both thought the farm bill was wrong. But when I chose to disagree and not bash the Bush administartion, but rather point out the policical motivations, you went into overdrive and started spewing inflammatory BS. That's were we parted company. Bush isn't a socialist and I'm no Marxist.
Throughout your posts, you showed emotions of anger and frustration, along with irrational and illogical rhetoric. Add to that an ignorance of politics that I found quite astounding.
It's your turn at bat.
Didn't say Bush was a socialist, just said he made the mistake of capitulating to his enemies. And a weak enemy at that. You want to talk political reality? Politics goes in cycles, and right now we are in a conservative one. We have the upper hand, this is no time for capitulation, this is the time for advancement. Bush could have created one hell of a farm bill and really done something for farmers, but he missed the opportunity. The Republicans do this every damn time, they compromise before they have even get out of the gate. We could have kicked their arse on the farm bill with the terrorist attacks making home grown anything very popular, especially fuel. It was the perfect time to switch to a more value added/free market approach. You just don't get opportunities like this every day.