You gotta love a guy who will stand in the middle of Iowa farmland and refuse to pander to the subsidy-hungry ag industry:
AKD: What will you do for the farmers of Bremer County?
FT: (laughs)
AKD: You knew this was coming, right?
FT: I would continue to enjoy the fruits of their labor. I've been looking all over Iowa for a bad steak and I can't find it. Been trying my best. It's not a matter of what I would do for the farmers. Farmers are not looking for a president to hand them something. Farmers want fair treatment and a chance to prosper in a free economy and that's what I would help ensure. There's a lot of programs we've got out there, some of which are good programs, some of which are not. And I think that we need to work our way through that and make sure we're doing what's good for the country, not just the farmers, not just the people of Iowa, not just the people of Tennessee. But good for the country. A sound policy that makes sense. I think there's a lot more that we could do for the working farmer in terms of ecological programs and environmental programs - land conservation, soil conservation - that would be fair and it would be beneficial to the nation and to Iowa and to our country. We're going to have to phase out the corporate welfare system we've got, however. There are extremely rich people living in skyscrapers in Manhattan that are receiving subsidy payments. I think that's wrong. I'd put a stop to that if it was within my power. That still continues in this latest Farm Bill and it's not right. There ought to be a cutoff at some level and it's not right ot have millionaires receiving farm subsidies.
Quite right.
I think Thompson’s absolute refusal to pander - whether it be to special interest groups, political “kingmakers” and/or the media - is a big reason why he gets tagged with the “lazy” campaign label. His principles are iron, and he doesn’t bend them so that he can kiss the cheeks of the people who are used to being smooched by politicians.
This has cost him dearly, politically, but at some point you’d think rank-and-file conservatives would want to stand up for a guy with principles like this rather than just go along with the judgment of the spurned political/media elites.
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This was a good article. Thanks for posting it.
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Mary Mc
Fred is the only one with the qualifications, experience and record of stability to walk into being a president and hit the ground running where many world leaders know him personally. He has been working recently as a chairman for Secretary of State Rice and escorted Chief Justice Roberts to our Supreme Court also. There is so much more to learn about him and you can see it all at http://www.fred08.com
You can also research four of the the other candidates at http://www.candidateresearch.blogspot.com
The only way to understand what these guys are talking about and comparing it to what they were saying and doing before is to keep them honest by checking the facts for yourselves...all the work of searching has been done for you so, go for it folks! ;- )
Thompson does not look you in the eye and tell you what he'll do for you; he says he will continue what he always has done. None of the other candidates except Duncan Hunter can afford to say that.
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