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"Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap," observed Thomas Jefferson, "we should soon want bread." Our Founders could not countenance any role for the national government in agriculture and provided no authority for it in the U.S. Constitution.
Alexander Hamilton, in The Federalist, No. 17, declared that "the supervision of agriculture and other concerns of a similar nature ... can never be desirable cares of a general jurisdiction." Federal subsidies and regulation were fastened on American agriculture by the socialist central planners of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal brain trust.
President Bush and Congress are continuing the New Deal. "Farming is the first industry of America -- the industry that feeds us, the industry that clothes us, and the industry that increasingly provides more of our energy," President Bush said at the May 13th signing of the Farm Security and Rural ...