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S a 131! ever-increasingly, small family farmers are being
forced off the land in the greatest numbers since the
dast-bowi years of the Depression. The agricultural economy
has reached the status of a legitimate crisis.
Farmers can't break even. They miss loan payments. Rural
banks colhtpsc. Bigger banks take them over. Some collapse and
aren't resold. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation collects
"bad" loans. More termers go under. More corporations bay the
land. A way of life is being plowed under.
If President Reagan's budget should pass, the small fanner will
go under much sooner. Underneath a veil of compassion for small
farmers, this administration would like to let the visible hand cf
Adam Smith work its magic, wiping cut family farms.
Even with price supports, eur.y credit and extended loans, the
small farmer is going under.
Without federal support, the small farmers who aren't breaking
even will fold even sooner, speeding the industrialization cf rural
America, putting the land into corporate hands.
Reagan's program would pare away about half of federal
agriculture programs over the next five years, from 17 billion to
$39 billion. According to wire service reports, about 15 percent of
the United States' commercial farmers with incomes of $40,000 or
more might lose their farms without mere federal help. Reagan
maintains the market economy will set an equitable price for
farmers by itself. If farmers are going broke now, with help, there
will be many more with less federal support.
Admittedly, price supports and loans are only temporary
solutions to the farm problem but the government has been
operating as if those were permanent solutions to small farm
woes. The Farmer's Home Administration and a number of other
support programs for farmers have been used since the end cf the
Depression.
The government needs a new approach to the farm economy.
Alex McCalla, a University of California economist, said in
Sunday's Omaha Wcrid-IIeraid, "If we content to let the trends in
farm size and production concentration continue until the vast
majority cf output is produced by 200,0(50 large-scale farms, then
let's be up front about it and quit talking about millions cf family
farms."
McCalla said that right now large corporate farms would be the
most efficient way to satisfy the country's hunger at the lowest
cost to consumers.
"... a goal cf 'preserving the family fsrm' clearly has little
meaning unless we are much more explicit about our structural
and distributional goals," he said. In ether words, the government
should either let the economy take its course or take some
drastic action.
A long term, or for that matter short term, price subsidy or loan
program is not going to solve the family farmer's problems.
The deficit, which makes our produce expensive to foreign
buyers, needs to be trimmed.' Surpluses must' be eliminated.
Supply of produce must go down in order for the price to come up.
Long term adjustments in the economy are needed. In the
meantime, the government must maintain current farm programs
if the family farm is to be saved.
If the current ccp.22rvs.tive fashion prevails, small farms proba
bly won't be spared. In the administration's eyes, a more
efficient economy is more important that the suffering of small
farmers.
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nnocent verdict reflects frustration of society
1 was on mai xor ettestptdd mamr
it riter tour pill's his dy on
the subTsy. Today, you can buyBemh
ard Goetz T-shirts tad at iesst three
dilTerent bocks telling ihs subway vig
ilsnte's story.
- Shoot a cc?!3 of bhek kids, and
you're a hero.
L;:; J' ' Chris
It's Rot r.rch:r.ts capitalising on
Goetz's crime that bothers me it's
normal, healthy capitalist to sell what
people will buy. The fact "that people
Vv'ant to buy such junk comes closer to
the root cf this perversion the Grea
test American llcto is a viknle. I
liked it better when he wore a cape end
couldn't Cy st?sl.
Do you resiezsber when the Greatest
Aiaericsa Hero stood for truth, justice
tad the American Wgy? When crime
filters v:z:t z:iLZz d ?,i:h f rcveRtfag
cr.r.3 tf.d cp pith niirg criminals?
When the good g'-rjs didn't shoot the
bd $ ays in the bsxk when they had
them on the run?
Superman never ssid, "Gosh, Lois, I
wish I rodd havo kiikd thea all."
ThiP-S3 sre different, now. As much
of the media has 'claimed tad as
Eomhard Goets's "Foilly Ftud-UJce'"
like trial proved, v.e ce a feustraJted
society, fed up with crime and the fail
ure of cur criminal justice eystem.
WeVe beccise rsdst and bloodthirsty. .
"Self defense ! That's the number
cna answer! Survey csld, 23!" Kiss the
fsrsman, Eichsrd.
Who won when Goetz's innocent
verdict csme down? Goetz end his law
yer. And the guys who sell T-shirts. The
rest cf us lost But we're happy about it.
We bay the rationalization for Goetz's
crime that his act wis a symbolic blow
fcr the masses huddled iiisst crime.
We've made that rstionsMzatica fcto a
justification, so much so that we could
sympathize with Gostz when he said he
wished 'he would have had enough
biillsts to kill $.11 cf them.
And what if he had? Hundreds cf
Hudk Finns would tell hun-drsd.! c?
Aunt Sallp in hundreds of homes
across America, "Nobody got hurt Just
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a couple
Our society's radsa snd bloodiust
lends a new perspecthrs to the old
comparisons between the United States
and the dscin Earns Empire. Once
the link was tenuously based on sod
omy and venerea! disease. Now, it can
be extended to include each society's
object of hero worship the Romans'
inbred slobbering perverts and our
gussiisging Goetz. '
The vigilante's act was no shining
symbolic heroism, as we seem so des
perate to see it. It gives us no hope for a
better future; on the contrary, it leng
thens the shadow of the past Goetz's
elevation to hero status mesns we have
grasped violence as the answer to cur
troubles: we'll respond to killing with
mere killir-g. Instead cf searching for
and fighting anst the causes of
crime, well snsks scapegoats. Instead
of ccrrecting car sjsim cf justice,
we'H abandon that principle fcr a
quick fk cf lead. '
And why net? It's cry, it's popular
and it sells T-shirts.
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;!e solutions. The nuck y:z?"-c
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Ever since the Vntii LLin tr.i ti.e
Soviet Union acquired the &li'.ity to pro
duce nu J:ar w.spcnr, the r.vxicor prob-l-.m
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been destred. Perhaps this policy is best
described by its acronym MAD. "
One of the inherent flm? ftfrth
oi R1AD is that it gives the president cf this
naiion nuw latitude in the event
nucsegr missiles being launched to-
the United States. Or.
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dent has is to surrender and
phensiyle damage to occur to our natio
The other option is to launch mr v.Hn.
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m retaliation and thereby proceed to de
trey the world
m u shodd noted that the possibility
ex a nucisar missile being hunched m-
m2zm m smaller unstable nations ascu
nuclear fLese Idea aba provides no solu
tion, as it fdls to even relate to the prob
lems cf the policy cf !1AD.
For the first time since the benning of
the arms race, a potential alternative,
bsisd on a ccfensa f inst tsilistic mm
files, is cmcr":r concert, con
ncrJy vd:n?i to S3 Zt:i Wirs or the Str
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Clesily, an altemath-e is needed. Eugene
V. Rostow, former director of the Arras
Centre! Disarmament Agency, siys pr4
t,4j vvwiwiis cilea lead to an
agreement to &low more wejns. The
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Af.cr a Kuclsar nb-Ua is launched, ue
beam, traveling at or near the speed of
light, would be able to strike down the
Ha-wi3 il fil.. - - - - " "
As Ben Eova, president cf the National
Spsxe I;;'l:t3 rA 'T. 3 red impor
tance cf FciL'ir.t F.Cci'a's tnr Wars
c:r.cc;t h e-.: i:c - - :::'.b-lty cf a
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