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A pretty good business to be in. protections like no other industry. better than oil? yeah. better than the defense industry, in a way, it's strong. the issue is coming up again because the farm bill is getting marked up and the sugar program is a hot topic. conservatives, they are using the program as their latest whipping post. they want to gut sugar subsidies across the board, say we shouldn't be doing it. the heritage foundation has called for sugar subsidies to be totally abolished. say it's bad for consumers, bad for agricultural, bad for america. mitt romney called for an end to sugar s...

That the america we want? you know what they want the farmers to do, sugar beat growers righties always turn their back on the democrats, get your butt on the free market and see if it can work. compete with cuba and everybody else out there doing sugar business. why in the hell should we protect you because you never protected the workers. the american dream, for some of those workers who have been in those plants and worked for 25 or 30 years, have been locked out. you know why? because they have been too successful. a select few who are living and working the land are making big-time bucks....

A pretty good business to be in. protections like no other industry. better than oil? yeah. better than the defense industry, in a way, it's strong. the issue is coming up again because the farm bill is getting marked up and the sugar program is a hot topic. conservatives, they are using the program as their latest whipping post. they want to gut sugar subsidies across the board, say we shouldn't be doing it. the heritage foundation has called for sugar subsidies to be totally abolished. say it's bad for consumers, bad for agricultural, bad for america. mitt romney called for an end to sugar s...

Farms. i don't know how much longer people can hold on. that's why we need to bring it to a resolution. >> well, they always say follow the money. i don't want anybody to ever say that we don't take the democrats to the woods yet when they're wrong on this program. according to opensecrets.org, the company that has looked out the workers of american crystal sugar is the top contributor/donor to congressman collin peterson. peterson is the ranking member on the house ag committee. for the democrats, this lockout is in his district. i was there saturday, he wasn't. he sent somebody there to read...

Amounts, am track, and the ones i agree with, the federal travel budget, not all of it. the prohibition on competent tiff sourcing of government services, which if they actually did stop, and the usda sugar program, which is a subsidy for sugar. do some of those make sense? and, two, what do you think about the pbs and all the other ones they have always wanted to target? >> let's put this into a context. they said what they wanted to do was to create jobs. they wanted to protect the middle class and deal with a deficit reductions. the first opportunity was how do we repeal and repeat health c...