--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>we don't need the Washington Post re-interpreted to be
>even more cynical than it already is, especially when the issue as is
>critical to our lives as the food supply.
Can you provide any evidence that this nation's food supply is in
such danger as to require significant additional spending, beyond
that proposed by the Republicans?
Also, remember there are two questions here:
1) The Democrats have expended a great deal of effort as of late
portraying themsevles as the Party of fiscal responsibility, in
particular, condemning *any* attempt to spend surplus Social Security
and Medicare taxes on anything other than debt reduction. So, do the
Democrats agree that there is non SS/Medicare money available for
additional spending, on agriculture, or the military, etc.? Or,
have the Democrats changed their position.
2) Do agricultural subsidies provide a benefit to the nation
sufficient to offset the cost of the subsidies themselves, plus the
higher food prices borne by consumers, especially consumers?
JDG
