North Dakota senator Byron Dorgan recently co-sponsored an amendment to the farm bill currently being extruded from Congress making subsidies unavailable to farms with more than $250,000 in annual income. (There are fewer than 100 farms like that in America.)
It didn't work out. And Arkansas senator Blanche Lincoln shares the blame. It's a variation on a theme that Republicans have been using to jam up the Democratic legislative agenda. It works great, which is probably why Sen. Lincoln, a Democrat, used it on her Majority Leader.
There are other, less counterproductive ways to make the point that all politics are local. Certainly the state of Arkansas benefits, but it does so at the expense of a perfect opportunity to show genuine discipline and leadership.
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"The recipients include farms run by the Arkansas Department of Corrections, which produces cotton and other crops using convict labor. Federal subsidies to a state plantation worked by prisoners who don't get paid: now that's enterprising."
Hahaha! Democrpwn3d. That's Arkansas for you.
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