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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz#Career http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz#Career > Butz revolutionized federal agricultural policy and reengineered
by kingkongrevenge 19y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz#Career http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz#Career
> Butz revolutionized federal agricultural policy and reengineered many New Deal era farm support programs. His mantra to farmers was "get big or get out," and he urged farmers to plant commodity crops like corn "from fencerow to fencerow."
- strey 19y agoI read the implication to be more along the lines of Butz being in the pockets of the agriculture corporations, not as a government method of feeding occupied countries.