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Why Don't We Have a Farm Bill? Rural Areas Are Irrelevent.Submitted by WhitesCreek on December 10, 2012 - 10:15am.
Let's talk about the real reason the House failed to produce a farm bill, Republicans, who control the House from which all spending bills must legally flow, have the rural vote locked up on meaningless issues (guns, gays, god, race, birth certificates, etc) so why bother. Tom Vilsack: "It's time for us to have an adult conversation with folks in rural America..." That and more from the Buzz...
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Roane County still has a fair sized agricultural community, though you wouldn't know it from any of our local news.