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

To: goldworldnet who wrote (205257)	11/29/2001 9:46:29 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 769670

Re Federal Dairy Cartel - Moopec - not dead yet: Daschle is selling bad bill of goods A Boston Herald editorial Thursday, November 29, 2001 President Bush may be riding high as commander-in-chief, but on the home front Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is eating his lunch. Daschle is expected to bring to the floor soon, perhaps todayan outrageous farm bill that would pay off former Republican Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont with a nationwide dairy compact to raise milk prices, truly a raid on the wallets of poor families for the benefit of well-off farmers. It could make a gallon of milk cost 26 cents more. And while the farm bill gets bumped to the top of the Senate's priorities, Daschle insists there is no time this year to consider an energy bill. Anybody who takes Daschle seriously is obviously in the market to buy a bridge in Brooklyn. He doesn't have the votes to prevent exploring for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which the House version of the energy bill would permit. So he fills up the Senate's schedule with the farm bill even though existing farm programs don't expire until next October. Low current oil prices are no reason not to develop domestic sources for the long term. Prices will stay down just as long as the economies of the industrialized world are stalled, and then OPEC will try to climb back into the driver's seat. The House has also passed a farm bill that's a hair's breadth less generous than the Senate bill (authorizing $170 billion in subsidies over 10 years instead of $174 billion). But the House, perhaps aware that the disappearance of dairy farms accelerated when the New England milk price-fixing compact operated, refused to keep that little rip-off alive. Speaking to a farm group yesterday, Bush said any farm bill should be ``generous but affordable.'' Neither the House nor the Senate bill meets that test. If a farm bill lands on his desk, Bush should end Daschle's lunch with a veto for dessert. He's just made the case for one. bostonherald.com