President Bush vetoed the long-embattled 2007 farm bill Wednesday, saying it provides subsidies for farmers at a time of record crop prices, increases farm spending by $20 billion and uses 'budget gimmicks to hide much of that increase.' Within hours, in a show of bipartisan defiance, the House overwhelmingly overrode his veto of the nearly $300-billion bill, 316 to 108. (Los Angeles Times, Thursday)
Congressional shamelessness.
FEE Timely Classic
Ending Farm Subsidies Wouldn't Help the Third World? It Just Ain't So! by E. C. Pasour, Jr.