Rand Paul wants to eliminate ag program.

On 11/17/2010 3:50 PM, Phyllis Mains wrote:
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>   Will ag business reap reward from election?
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> Will voters get the small government and reduced spending they were 
> promised?
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> Newly elected Republican lawmakers say no to light rail that would 
> alleviate wasteful oil consumption, but say yes to billions of big 
> government subsidies for oil, gas, coal and agricultural business.
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> With Sen. Chuck Grassley's and Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill 
> Northey's re-election campaigns funded by Farm Bureau, will we see an 
> end to big government policies that reward corporate agribusiness with 
> billions of dollars in farm subsidies?
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> Agribusiness consumes nearly a fifth of all petroleum used in the 
> United States, and it takes 10 calories of fossil-fuel energy to make 
> one calorie of food.
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> Subsidized cheap food produced by subsidized cheap fuel has led to an 
> epidemic of obesity, causing multiple health problems, such as 
> diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke.
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> Wasn't this election also about repealing the health care bill?
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> - Phyllis Mains, Van Wert
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