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In Videos: 'Cash Cows and Cowboy Starter Kits' on Bill Moyers Journal, PBS

The Bill Moyers Journal teamed up with the PBS series Exposé: America's Investigative Reports to follow the trail of Washington Post reporters who uncovered more than $15 billion in "wasteful, unnecessary, or redundant expenditures" that went from Washington to America's farmers. With grain prices skyrocketing and the federal deficit out of sight, this would seem the moment to cut back on those tens of billions of dollars that taxpayers shower on milk producers, cotton and rice farmers, and growers of corn, soybeans, wheat, and sugar — subsidies that keep coming whether they're needed or not. Our farm policies frankly are a ramshackle, a costly mess — a monster jerrybuilt by politics. What was supposed to be a temporary financial...

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1 Comment | Posted by Raphael, April 13, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Tagged: Bill Moyers Journal, farm policy, PBS, politics, Washington Post