Record Food Prices and Record Farm Profits, Why Record Farm Subsidies?

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Increased farm subsidies have made strange bedfellows of environmentalists and the Bush Administration. They agree that that the big federal money goes to big agri-business at the expense of the little guys, not what subsidies were designed to do. Also, the Supreme Court upholds Indiana Voter ID Law, and Reverend Jeremiah Wright goes public…again.

Food prices are setting records and so are the profits of farmers, so why is Congress at work on a farm bill with more subsidies than ever before? Even Iowa Senator Tom Harkin calls it "free money."  Will the rich be getting richer at the expense of the environment, small farmers and American consumers? Also, the Supreme Court upholds Indiana Voter ID Law, and Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club today: on patriotism, Louis Farrakhan and Barack Obama.

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Credits

Host:

Warren Olney

Producers:

Christian Bordal, Sonya Geis