Will voters get the small
government and reduced spending they were promised?
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.
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?
Agribusiness consumes nearly a
fifth of all petroleum used in the
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.
Wasn't this election also
about repealing the health care bill?
- Phyllis Mains, Van
Wert