○  a time for choosing (aka the speech)  ○

know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. they also knew, those founding fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy.

now, we have no better example of this than government's involvement in the farm economy over the last 30 years. since 1955, the cost of this program has nearly doubled. one-fourth of farming in america is responsible for 85% of the farm surplus. three-fourths of farming is out on the free market and has known a 21% increase in the per capita consumption of all its produce. you see, that one-fourth of farming -- that's regulated and controlled by the federal government. in the last three years we've spent 43 dollars in the feed grain program for every dollar bushel of corn we don't grow.

senator humphrey last week charged that barry goldwater, as president, would seek to eliminate farmers. he should do his homework a little better, because he'll find out that we've had a decline of 5 million in the farm population under these government programs. he'll also find that the democratic administration has sought to get from congress [an] extension of the farm program to include that three-fourths that is now free. he'll find that they've also asked for the right to imprison farmers who wouldn't keep books as prescribed by the federal government. the secretary of agriculture asked for the right to seize farms through condemnation and resell them to other individuals. and contained in that same program was a provision that would have allowed the federal government to remove 2 million farmers from the soil.

at the same time, there's been an increase in the department of agriculture employees. there's now one for every 30 farms in the united states, and still they can't tell us how 66 shiploads of grain headed for austria disappeared without a trace and billie sol estes never left shore.

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