Political Quotes

“let me say that one aspect of his argument was agreed to in the recently passed farm bill, when he talks about these people who had quotas and lived in Boston and farmed in Alabama. There was a provision in the farm bill where production was shifted to the family farm, and that was one of the accomplishments that the Senator from Pennsylvania brought about. He has already brought about several changes in this bill which was in the farm bill. The production will shift to the family farms. Public entities and the out-of-State nonproducers are ineligible now for participation in the program. What he was talking about, in giving his illustration, he has already accomplished. So that argument, I do not think, is applicable to this amendment. Originally, the amendment had a $40,000 figure on it. We figured up at 2,500 pounds of production per acre that this would come out to about a farm of about 52 acres, and the national average of the peanut farmer is 98 acres. But he then, in effect, by raising it to 125, has tripled it, which means that basically he is talking about a farm of about 156 acres which would be involved. The Senator from Pennsylvania confuses payments with a loan. They are two separate and distinct things. You put a commodity in loan; therefore, it is sort of like going to the bank, you get some money. But the commodity is in loan, and it is designed for farmers to use in order that if the price goes up, then they can make money.…”