Vicky Hartzler Quotes
We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry, you know, try and make that look like something exceptional.
Associated Press. "Hartzler defends farm subsidies." Columbia Daily Tribune, 22 Aug. 2010.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising. This was a creative idea to being technology to bear on small farms. America was exploring cooperatives and other devices of trying to allow people who were not rich and had little or not capital, to utilize the emerging technology that would be so important.
The House had been debating an agricultural subsidy bill. Family farmers had in certain years not been able to sell their produce for the cost of growing it and subsidies made up the difference. But in this particular year, farm prices were very high and the agricultural subsidies were “welfare for the rich.” Farmers who earned over a million dollars in a great agricultural year would get “subsidies.” Typically members of Congress were either opposed to agricultural subsidies or opposed. Congressman Kind had a more nuanced view.
Actually, Kerry was incorrect, but he had a point, There are about 110,000 employees of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and every state has their own department of Agriculture with employees. There are about 2 million farms in America. So there is a government agriculture employee for about every 15 farms—a ratio that no other occupation shares.
Actually, the Agriculture Department was one of Lincoln’s greatest achievements. The subsidies and corporate welfare came much later. The biggest benefits were the land grant collages where agricultural research improved the yields and productivity and the Agricultural Extension provided training and technical assistance to American farmers making the United States the most efficient agricultural producer in the world. The subsidies and corporate welfare had and has nothing to do with the positive initiatives that Lincoln envisioned.
Vicky Jo Hartzler is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Missouri's 4th congressional district since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the Missouri State Representative for the 124th district from 1995 to 2000.
