{"id":69,"date":"2006-03-06T21:09:28","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T02:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/06\/fff-uncorks-my-piece-on-the-federal-farming-takeover\/"},"modified":"2006-03-06T21:09:28","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T02:09:28","slug":"fff-uncorks-my-piece-on-the-federal-farming-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/06\/fff-uncorks-my-piece-on-the-federal-farming-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"FFF uncorks my piece on the Federal Farming Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Future of Freedom Foundation <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fff.org\/freedom\/fd0511c.asp\">posted online<\/a><\/strong> my Freedom Daily article on FDR&#8217;s takeover of American agriculture. The piece is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/bovard\/bovard22.html\"><strong>re-posted today<\/strong><\/a> at LewRockwell.com. Here&#8217;s an outtake:<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><font size=\"2\">The history of agricultural policy is a history of endless political finagling, of bureaucracies that always lagged behind the pace of events, of policymakers\u2019 appalling misperceptions that repeatedly destroyed farmers\u2019 independence, of politicians who refused to admit their limitations, and of farmers who refused to admit their responsibility. Government farm programs have been impervious both to failure and to change.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online my Freedom Daily article on FDR&#8217;s takeover of American agriculture. The piece is re-posted today at LewRockwell.com. Here&#8217;s an outtake: The history of agricultural policy is a history of endless political finagling, of bureaucracies that always lagged behind the pace of events, of policymakers\u2019 appalling misperceptions that repeatedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,659],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attention-deficit-democracy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FFF uncorks my piece on the Federal Farming Takeover - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/06\/fff-uncorks-my-piece-on-the-federal-farming-takeover\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FFF uncorks my piece on the Federal Farming Takeover - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online my Freedom Daily article on FDR&#8217;s takeover of American agriculture. 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