Archer Daniels Midland, one of our lands
giants in the agriculture biz, brags about
being "Resourceful By Nature." Don't try
to understand that slogan, its just words
that mean nothing, but sounds knowledge-
able. No-one in the ad agency or corporat-
ion can tell us what it is supposed to indi-
cate, which is why they think it sounds so
knowledgeable.

What they should have dreamed up was
"Resourceful By Government Subsidies."
That would be so much more enlightened
and everyone would have understood.

You've read about the new farm bill that is
costing about 280 billion for the 2007-08
fiscal year? Our friends at "Resourceful by
Nature" will pick up a couple of billion
from that load. Much is allegedly going for
research of corn being turned into ethanol.
That supposedly will get us off our oil binge.

Have you read that over half the cars in Bra-
zil run on ethanol made from sugar. AND it
is costing Brazilians almost half the price our
buddies at ADM are projecting for their tater
product. Their research is done. It is success-
ful. They've reduced oil consumption, people
are paying much less, Brazil is open to re-
search exchamge. What in God's name has
become of our smarts? Are our pols so weak,
so owned by the corporations that they can't
use their common sense or are the three
branches of government just of, by and for
the corporations?

Yell, scream, write, phone. Don't let our pre-
cious land go down the tubes without a whim-
per. Do something, anything, fight for America.