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...they'd rather not accept subsidies--if they didn't have to comply with so many government regulations, compete with subsidized farmers abroad and deal with commodity prices beyond their control. And don't get them started on the rising costs of their machinery, inputs and fuel. But their main arguments are that we'd spend more on food in a world without subsidies and that dependence on foreign protein would be even worse than our dependence on foreign oil. "The subsidies help keep us in business, so we can play in the dirt and you don't have...
...ensuring cheap food is not the real goal of the system. Farmers rightfully complain that they don't set food prices; they only receive a few pennies from the sale of every loaf of bread or box of cornflakes. When commodities are cheap, the main beneficiaries are well-heeled grain -and-livestock processors like Cargill, Tyson and Archer Daniels Midland. No, the real goal has always been to protect farmers from the vagaries of the weather and the market. Farming is indeed a risky business--most businesses are risky businesses--and farm policies have tried to reduce that risk...
...FedEx to Anheuser-Busch, and even American farmers who rely on exports. "The problem is a vested political constituency that's absolutely committed to the status quo," says retired California Congressman Cal Dooley, a former cotton and walnut farmer who leads the Grocery Manufacturers Association. "That's the main obstacle to free trade...
...club. Even the aura of the crime world itself is lightened by the presence of Cuba Gooding Jr., who plays a comically overdressed small-time gangster with a loud, Flavor Flav-esque personality. Despite serving a necessary mood-lifting purpose, Gooding Jr.’s acting is the main sore point in the film, especially when compared to the chops of Washington and Crowe. Even “homebound-after-arrest” pop-rapper T.I. brings a greater depth of realism to his role as Lucas’ wide-eyed nephew. Perhaps the vital string that ties...
...talking about half of the time,” says Hall, who is the musical director of the show. “Purcell’s music saves Dryden’s text from being bad.”As a semi-opera, the show’s main action is spoken, with interpolated musical tableaux called masques. The masques, which rarely advance the plot, are the instances where the show is at its most stylized, impressionistic, and ceremonial. There are pagan sacrifices, pastoral masses, and one spectacular encounter between the evil sorcerer Oswald, Cupid, and the tutelary spirit...