the question of the amount of money is guided by what our competitors are doing. The Europeans, who are our major competitors, are outspending us by a very wide margin. The amount of money in the Johnson amendment is intended to approach what our major competitors are doing. It doesn't equal them, but it is to at least give our farmers a fair, fighting chance.
Discussing agricultural funding and competition with European farmers.
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all the talk in the world doesn't matter if you don't actually get something done in the real world.
Things are changing very rapidly, and it presents us with a requirement to change how we envision retirement as well.
Organize and educate I think are the two keys to getting anything big through Congress.
I wish I could look you in the eye and say, you know, if we just had the will, we could reverse this, and we could go back to a time when defined benefit plans were on the increase. I do not think that is in the cards.
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