The Rapid City Journal reports that the first debate between Stephanie Herseth and Bruce Whalen, that was staged in West River South Dakota, featured drought aid:
Drought relief was a major topic at last night's KOTA televised debate, which featured the three South Dakota candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Republican U.S. House candidate Bruce Whalen said that farmers in South Dakota should not depend on the federal government for drought assistance.
Whalen said that after talking to farmers it seems as though "we need to find different alternatives rather than to have disaster aid going through all the time. Obviously, we can't depend on the federal governments in our needs."
His response was an answer to moderator
Helene Duhamel's question about the recent Washington-based Environmental Working Group's statement saying that South Dakota's farmers are chronically depending on disaster aid.
The study said that South Dakota ranks third in total disaster aid in the past 21 years, behind Texas and North Dakota.
Whalen said part of the solution is to "make sure we have a head start going into next year" and be prepared to deal with the drought.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth argued against the group's statement, saying it "is not true, and it's very unfair to family agriculture in South Dakota and throughout the Great Plains."
She said the group has a "narrow objective" that is not fair to state farm programs.
Independent candidate Larry Rudebusch agreed with the group's statement.
"Yes, we are," he said. "It's a dependency. It's a forced dependency. Our farming economy is insolvent."
The RCJ also covered Herseth’s grand opening in Rapid City. Excerpt:
In the process, the Bush administration and Republican leaders in Congress have produced a $260 billion deficit this year and driven the national debt to $8.5 trillion, Herseth said. That's a burden that shouldn't be left for future citizens to pay off, she said.
"That is a debt tax. That's a tax on the next generation, no doubt about it," she said.
SO Herseth advocates spending more money to buy votes in West River ranch country, buth then takes a breath and complainst about deficit spending. That was the same hypocrisy we saw out of Tom Daschle. Recall 2002 and this June 30th analysis by Rush Limbaugh:
A month ago Tom Daschle, the Senate majority leader, appeared on NBC's Sunday morning show with Tim Russert, who confronted him with an extract from a Post editorial. The extract wasn't very friendly - it attacked the senator for promoting the budget-busting farm bill - so perhaps the snippy response was understandable. "I am just amazed at the inaccurate reporting about the farm bill," the senator stated, claiming that the bill actually saved money. In the past, he explained, preplanned farm subsidies were supplemented by annual emergency payments, which taken together exceeded the cost of the new farm program.
"We're getting rid of those ad hoc disaster payment approaches. We're actually bringing down the cost of the federal program, and very few journalists and very few commentators report on that." A British prime minister once said that a week is a long time in politics, but even he would have marveled at what happened next. On June 13, just 11 days after Mr. Daschle's TV performance, a press release appeared calling for more ad hoc disaster aid - the sort of payment that had apparently been phased out.
So now in 2006, Herseth is also asking for more deficit spending to buy votes in West River South Dakota, and then take a breath and whine about the budget deficit. Amazing how well Herseth has mastered the art of Daschle hypocrisy.
When Herseth mentions decreasing the deficit, she is not advocating reduced government spending. That means she wil instead be going along with the Democrat tax increases. And news today proves that the Bush tax decrease has increased economic growth, increased government revenues, and is decreasing the deficit:
The U.S. budget deficit in fiscal 2006 narrowed to $248 billion from $319 billion in 2005, as revenues were the highest on record and in spite of record spending, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.
So the answer to eliminating the deficit is less spending, or decreasing the tax rate even further. Bruce Whalen knows that to be true, and how government dependency is what is causing the poverty problem on the reservations. But the Democrats want to do the exact opposite. If the South Dakota Drive-By media wasn't so pro-Democrat, Whalen would have this race in the bag by now. But instead the Drive-By media is busy promoting the Democrat propaganda and far-left lies.
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