Some letters of note …
Authored: October 26th, 2008 @ 1:48 PM
Our own Kathy Dodds has a letter to the editor, “Obama has too many shortcomings to lead U.S.” and it has stirred up some spirited debate.
With such an important choice to be made on Nov. 4, for a president who will be the most powerful person in the free world, I’m very concerned with the push to put Barack Obama in that position. Having served in the Senate for 143 days, he felt ready to offer himself as the person to lead our country. What business, let alone country thinks 143 days on the job qualifies a person to run the entire organization? He has not authored any legislation in the Senate, nor led any investigations or championed any cause. His lack of credentials frightens me greatly.
We also see that the Faribault Daily News has endorsed Mike Piper, a solid friend of the conservative who has also embraced caution and conservation the way only a thoughtful person can …
Plaisance and Piper right choices to be commissioners.
his plan surrounds complementing our agricultural roots with strategic industries that would fit well here, such as data farms and agricultural research facilities. He has a strong identification with farming and calls it “a patriotic thing,” and he supports voluntary preservation programs to help those who want to work the land to continue to be able to work the land and earn a living.
This maps well with our contention that the most important part of the definition of “sustainable farming” is keeping farmland affordable to people who want to farm (not speculate). Anything less is just “stalling till the developer shows up”, a strategy that will leave us hungry in a few years.