McCain opposes farm policies popular in Midwest

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain opposes the $300 billion farm bill and subsidies for ethanol, positions that both supporters and opponents say might cost him votes he needs in the upper Midwest this November....

By MIKE GLOVER

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McCain has it right here. Many farm subsidies which are stupid to begin with, go to large corporate farms not the small family farms it was supposed to help and the whole ethanol susidization needs to go away. Ethanol is a joke, everyone knows it, the problem is the Federal Government was stupid enough to push it that it needs backing or it will crash.

I say let it crash so we can move on to putting this money toward energy programs that have some kind of promise.