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The plight of agriculture and the family farm in this country has been a sad story for decades. That it has not been satisfactorily solved in all that time can be explained by public indifference, a sustained corporate trend to dominate agriculture and failed government policies over many years. In a nutshell, we’re all to blame.

The story featured in this post is an honest assessment by a successful individual and another reference to the flip-flop charge. Mitt Romney explains his current appraisal of agriculture against earlier considerations on flawed government. It relates to an earlier post here on the WTO and UN and their campaigns against the G4 protecting their agricultural interests against price undercutting by third world entrants to global trade. This earlier post agrees with Mitt Romney’s appraisal. There is agreement here with his earlier appraisal in that flawed government policies maintained by various departments in government damaged US agriculture.

It is interesting to note that the famous flip-flop allegations of the GOP toward John Kerry in 2004 are now being applied to Mitt Romney regularly. Funny how the same people applying this criticism of Mitt Romney want President Bush to flip-flop on his stand on the Iraq war. As well as any one else who supports victory in Iraq. Just another example of cherry picking issues and positions to camouflage political opposition as valid.

When circumstances change it is prudent to reevaluate positions and potential solutions. Who can truthfully say they never changed their mind in response to changing conditions? Not changing to accommodate new information can produce failure or at least miss the desired outcome. Careful consideration should be employed before using the flip-flop tag.

Stanford Matthews
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Romney views changed on USDA, farm subsidies

Monday, July 2, 2007, 11:14 AM
By O.Kay Henderson

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says he no longer advocates the “virtual elimination” of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

According to Romney, additional reductions in farm subsidies at this time would not be wise. “Europe and other nations continue to protect their farmers with a heavy subsidization program and we’re not going to take action which would put us at a competitive disadvantage for our farmers,” Romney says.

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