The Congressional Budget Office’s low-ball analysis of the Waxman-Markey global warming bill’s costs allowed President Obama to claim that this bill would cost each household no more than a postage stamp per day. Now, a preliminary analysis by the US Department of Agriculture insists the news is even better for farmers – this bill will have negligible costs in the near term and might actually make them money over the long term. The Heritage Foundation strongly disagrees, not to mention the American Farm Bureau Federation and most other farm groups. …
Tourists might buy souvenirs, but President Obama is seeking “deliverables” he can bring home to convince Americans that the millions of their tax dollars spent to send the huge U.S. delegation to the G-8 Meeting in Italy this week was money well spent. So, he has been leaning on other G-8 leaders to support his plan to provide new development assistance funds for programs in poor countries in Africa and elsewhere to help farmers learn how to grow more food. No doubt the President would also like to travel from …
Washington – Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), whom we have previously profiled on the Foundry, visited the Conservative Bloggers’ Briefing today and warned against radical environmental regulations cutting off the livelihoods of millions of Americans, just as thousands have lost jobs in his home district. “If you want to see the bellwether of this country, you need to look no further than California,” Nunes said, while about a quarter of the present bloggers, who happened to be from California, nodded their heads. “Good thing you’re here because its about ready to fall off into …
This Saturday the New York Times printed an op-ed on a subject of growing concern to many of their readers: the local food movement. A farmer from Minnesota wrote in to inform NYT readers about how the Agriculture Department’s commodity farm program was making it difficult for him to the grow fruits and vegetables he sells to fellow Minnesotans at farmers markets. To make a long story short, large growers in California, Florida, and Texas have rigged crop-support programs to make it difficult and expensive for small regional growers like …
