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Dean Kleckner, who used to run the farmer’s lobby and took corn and soybean subsidies for years, calls for farm subsidy reform in today’s New York Times. “It’s obvious that we need to transform our public support for farmers,” he says. “There’s something fundamentally perverse about a system that has farmers hoping for low prices at harvest time — it’s like praying for bad weather. But that’s precisely what happens, because those low prices mean bigger checks from Washington.”
Still waiting to hear Doug Brooks come out against military contractors.
