Tom Vilsack is a rurally focused individual. The Democrat is a former Iowa governor – who is currently the only Department of Agriculture Secretary President Barack Obama has had.
Vilsack is, of course, a partisan politician. He was a dark horse on the short list to be presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential pick. He wants Democrats to win elections.
And it was Donkey victories he last week discussed on former Obama political advisor David Axelrod’s podcast. According to Politico, Vilsack articulated that “Democrats must stop ignoring rural voters if they ever hope to erase severe deficits in those parts of the country.”
Vilsack is – more than a mite mistaken. At this point, rural voters would LOVE for Democrats to ignore them. Democrat ignorance of their existence would be a marked improvement. Because right now, what Democrats are doing – is destroying them. In particular – President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Ah yes – farmers. Of course, farmers are a very important subset of very important rural America. To which Vilsack paid additional lip service.
“‘The food we eat, the water we drink, the energy we use, a significant percentage of the military we rely on comes from rural America,’ Vilsack said. ‘Folks in rural America do not believe there is a recognition or appreciation on the part of Democrats for that contribution to the country.’”
No “recognition or appreciation,” Secretary Vilsack? That, Ladies and Gentlemen, is your Understatement of the Week. What this administration apparently has for farmers and their fellow rurals – is loathing and contempt. Embodied in an endless avalanche of regulatory assaults.
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Given this abysmal record, I don’t understand how ANY rural voter could vote Donkey. Republicans and rural voters – have a little more in common, to say the least.
For starters, Republicans would like the federal government to stop being an overt enemy to all things rural. Again, government stepping back to doing nothing would be a most welcome change.
And not just with regard to the cavalcade of new, anti-rural regulations. Rural voters want less government – all the way round.
Which means, for example, they want actually free trade: “Free trade deals reduce government….Less taxes and tariffs, less subsidies, less government-favoritism.”
Actually free, less-government-trade abroad – means we get to less government domestically too. Because we’re trading away pieces of domestic government inanity.
To wit: A longtime bane to conservatives’ existence – the Farm Bill. We can start with sugar:
“Florida Rep. Ted Yoho (has) put forth a resolution ‘expressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar producing and consuming countries should be eliminated.’…”
And we can take this free trade approach light years beyond just sugar – and light years beyond just subsidies. We free trade away more and more of the Farm Bill – and there will be less and less to renew.
And we can free trade away all sorts of additional government – tariffs, subsidies, regulations – that has nothing to do with farm stuffs.
Ted Yoho – is a Republican. Of the Republicans who are offering a less government approach – to farmers, rural voters, and everyone else.
After eight years of the Huge Government, anti-farmer, anti-rural Democrat Obama Administration. Which has resulted in less farms, less farmers, ever-more rural nightmares – and just about the worst economic recovery ever.
For which Party should farmers, rural voters, and everyone else vote?
It couldn’t be more obvious.
Sorry, Secretary Vilsack.
This first appeared in Red State.
no one should ever base their vote on a party but a candidate since its the parties that are the problem…
but to answer which I would say that both parties have brought harm to not just rural communities but to the entire country…
the smart thing to do is to declare both parties as terrorist organizations and banned from US soil and jail the leaders for treason…
Blades, you’re getting to be kind of a “cut up.”
Have you heard of a rock group called the Beatles?
No? They did a song a while back, about Revolution. You might want to listen to the words of that song.
Answer to the article above is not necessary; we all already know everyone outside of every city in America are GOING to vote for Trump.
Nobody can be sure Trump will be a good President. (Wait for it…….. WAIT for it……..):
We all KNOW FOR CERTAIN Hillary will NOT be a good president; she will be an absolutely disaster / having nothing to do with her gender, little to do with her VERY dishonest (“former”) husband, and little to do with all the dirt on her combined actually. Hillary will be an absolutely horrible President (IF she were to win) because: She’s just another Puppet / just like Obama. There is no “There THERE” in her head / she’s just the sum total of about ten thousand things people have told her to say……think……..and do. She’s not real; she’s just a puppet.
Trump is less than perfect. Hillary is less than REAL.
YOU Mr. Blades, are not helping.
kenny…WE know nothing of the kind…and neither do you…
but why would you change the subject and make it about trump???
but since you did explain how trumps amnesty is better than hilarys amnesty???
your attempt to ignore this liar and thief and his flipping on the things that got him the nomination is just dishonest and ignorant at best
but again I was talking about the parties and was 100% correct…
and you claim as to who the rurals will vote for is just the delusions of a trump humper…ie ignorant fool
so next time try and stay on topic
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know that you can count me out
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
All right, all right
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We’re doing what we can
But when you want money
For people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
All right, all right
Ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah…
You say you’ll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
All right, all right
All right, all right, all right
All right, all right, all right
and this means what exactly???
Sorry Steve, I thought it was fairly obvious.
You said:
“the smart thing to do is to declare both parties as terrorist organizations and banned from US soil and jail the leaders for treason…”
and I responded with the words from the Beatles song, “Revolution.”
Here it is in summary:
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know that you can count me out
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We’re doing what we can
But when you want money
For people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
You say you’ll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow