KATHLEEN A. DAHLKEMPER said "I actually spent a lot of time with my dairy farmers and actually many of my different members of the agriculture community. And they are struggling, they are struggling. They are struggling to get the loans that they need. They've had a double whammy. They have had a decrease in milk prices that have a lot of other factors. But when they go to the banks, the banks' hands are often tied, and the banks' hands have been tied because of what happened on Wall Street. Now, we talk about financial reform protecting Main Street from really the greed and recklessness--and I don't think we use that word enough, the greed that happened on Wall Street; it's not only Main Street, it's the country road. We need to protect our farmers and our small businesses and our entrepreneurs from that greed of Wall Street." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordApril 20, 2010

I actually spent a lot of time with my dairy farmers and actually many of my different members of the agriculture community. And they are struggling, they are struggling. They are struggling to get the loans that they need. They've had a double whammy. They have had a decrease in milk prices that have a lot of other factors. But when they go to the banks, the banks' hands are often tied, and the banks' hands have been tied because of what happened on Wall Street. Now, we talk about financial reform protecting Main Street from really the greed and recklessness--and I don't think we use that word enough, the greed that happened on Wall Street; it's not only Main Street, it's the country road. We need to protect our farmers and our small businesses and our entrepreneurs from that greed of Wall Street.

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KATHLEEN A. DAHLKEMPER

Pennsylvania

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Editor's note · Context

The speaker addresses the struggles of dairy farmers and the impact of Wall Street on their ability to secure loans.

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