Blogging on bureaucracy, organizations, USDA, agriculture programs, American history, the food movement, and other interests. Often contrarian, usually optimistic, sometimes didactic, occasionally funny, rarely wrong, always a nitpicker.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Ron Paul and the Farm Programs
Ron Paul released his budget outline, calling for a trillion dollars in cuts. Looking at the details, Rep. Paul either proposes to continue farm programs unchanged, or considers them so unimportant as to ignore them. For USDA he eliminates Food for Peace, FAS, WIC, and research and education, and whacks food stamps. But no mention of FSA/CCC/NRCS.
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