US FARM BILL
July 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, MONICA DOBIE AND PHILIP FINE
IF there is one striking characteristic about Washington's Bush Administration, it must be its almost unprecedented ability to infuriate the entire world with its unilateralism, especially its self-serving trade policies.
For years, the US government has actually played Mary Poppins on food production subsidies, claiming that its handouts do not encourage farmers to overproduce when prices are low. Now it is not really trying to pretend. President Bush has signed the US Farm Bill onto the American ...
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