One of the beauties about being in office before an election is that you can direct government funds to the voters with the expectation that they will return the favor on election day. Our President is exercising this same prerogative in Iowa with the following announcement: "President Barack Obama will announce on Monday that the Department of Agriculture intends to buy up to $170 million of pork, lamb, chicken and catfish to help support farmers suffering from the drought." (see: NBC News Story). Now I can understand helping drought-stricken farmers with pork, lamb and chicken purchases ... but catfish purchases?
Isn't this a little like aiding tsunami victims by sending them surfboards?
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