Another Department Of Agriculture Point

by Smitty

Da Tech Guy floats the question about the NAACP crowd’s reaction to blatant racism.

What about questions of the mission of the USDA? As you read Wikipedia, it seems that maybe the USDA is one of those oufits which may have made some sense in a pre-Information Age, but whose functions probably ought to be taken up at the State level, so that the throat emitting policy is much closer to the hand that works the lever in the voting booth.

P.J. O’Rourke had a chapter on Agricultural Policy in Parliament of Whores, which said, to summarize “boil that horse down for glue”.

Of course, the resulting product would adhere about as well as the current Congress to Constitutional principle, but at least it would feel like itself sticky and blame the previous administration in its slickness.

It’s time to re-ratify, at least informally, the country’s commitment to its founding principles.