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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: nihil who wrote (24733)	7/18/2000 8:44:04 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Maybe it's partly because of my family history but I take a jaundiced view of this myth of the yeoman American kulak. My parents both grew up on dirt farms that feed their families (barely). They thanked God they had the opportunity to get the heck off the farm and they never looked back. But let's look at the consequences if the family farm model had survived and even prospered. I believe we would have drained ever swamp on the continent, continued to cut down the forests until they were all gone, and brought into production unsuitable lands like steep hills until every molecule of top soil was washed away. This is the direction we were headed in the heyday of the family farm. I say goodbye and good riddance. Let's use the best available technology to raise the maximum amount of high quality food on the least amount of land. Let the market sort out who's capable of that challenge.