On the recordFebruary 28, 1996
I must say, as a consumer, I used to knock the farm programs. But I must say I have really appreciated them because as we went through those terrible floods in the Midwest a couple of years ago and we have eaten up an awful lot of our surpluses and all sorts of things, I never felt terrific price increases in the grocery store. In almost every other country, if you had the kind of floods we had in the Midwest, that literally knocked out everything, or you had some of the disasters we had--remember, or you had some of the disasters we had--remember, there were about 2 years where you thought there was a fast breeder disaster reactor. And yet our farm programs kept prices level for people like me who go to buy milk and bread and everything.
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