Get ready to smack your head into the nearest wall. Frank Lucas has posted his priorities. They are, in no particular order:
- Killing Cap and Trade: He's got a paragraph up on this that says:
The Waxman-Markey bill amounts to a national energy tax that would devastate the agriculture industry and wreak havoc on the entire rural economy. If signed into law, the bill would cause energy prices to skyrocket for farmers and agriculture producers, reduce farming and production jobs, and broaden the scope of government intrusion into the agriculture industry. The Waxman-Markey bill creates a national energy tax that will do more harm to production agriculture, American industry, and our standard of living for dubious environmental benefits. From higher energy costs to lost jobs to higher food prices, cap and trade promises to cap our incomes, our livelihoods and our standard of living, while it trades away American jobs and opportunities.
He follows that up with links calling cap and trade "job killing," "cap and tax," and an "energy tax." However, he does NOT post anything disputing the science of the climate crisis. I wonder if he believes it's really happening, and if he thinks it's man-made?
- Spray Drift: Oh good, you think. Lucas wants to reduce harmful drift of pesticide sprays. Um, NOT. He starts by bringing up the EPA's efforts to reduce pesticide spray drift by adding warning labels to pesticides and then says:
These changes are unnecessary, confusing and represent a radical departure from current law. The EPA's proposal creates an unachievable and unenforceable zero-drift standard that could lead to excessive litigation against agriculture producers and significant loss of farm productivity. This current action by the EPA is just the latest example of the EPA blindly following its radical environmental policies and ignoring its effects on American agriculture, America's food security and the American economy.
Really? This is just lame, on both sides. You're going to reduce spray drift with a warning label? And you're making opposition to a warning label one of your top priorities? Puh-LEASE. Here, Lucas lists a few links labeled, "EPA's Agenda Could Harm the Entire Ag Industry," and "EPA Continues to Attack American Agriculture."
- Rural America: Oh how nice. Lucas wants to help the economy of rural America. In fact, they've formed a new committee to do this. What will they focus on? From the links he lists here, it seems they want to stop the EPA's "job-killing" policies and get rid of health care reform, which they say has a "job-killing tax on small businesses."
- Free Trade Agreements: They are for them. So is Obama. How sweet, bipartisan support for a really bad idea. Specifically, they want new FTAs with Panama and Columbia.
He also lists Food Safety and the Farm Bill, but these seem less consequential. His Food Safety page completely focuses on the already-passed Food Safety Modernization Act (he just wants to complain about it, even though it's already passed and he can't do much about it), and he's already said he wants to wait a while before getting into the 2012 farm bill. |
