26 May 2008

A Brief History Of U.S. Agricultural Policy

A Daily Kos diarist sums up the history of U.S. agricultural policy, with all its absurdities, in a very large nutshell.

The extent to which our political process produces irrational results on this issue, which isn't terribly atypical, is horribly frustrating to anyone who wants to believe that democracy produces good policy.

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