Sarah Palin: Get The Government Out Of Our Government Farm Subsidies

Speaking at a place that is actually called "Hefty Farms," Sarah Palin wowed a North Dakota crowd with her trademark small-government arglebargle:

Palin got the biggest applause when she said, “I would argue what farmers need most is for politicians to butt out and just leave them alone.”

Palin went on to condemn the recently passed farm bill as "loaded with 1930s-era relics" and said that it would result in excessive regulations. She made no mention of farm subsidies in the bill, which was of course loaded with those 1930s-era relics as well. But that's a minor detail, and barely worth mentioning -- wouldn't it just make more sense for farmers to continue to get their subsidies without all that burdensome paperwork?

“The problem is a big, arrogant government,” she said, “when government is in every aspect of your life and in your business and collecting so much data on you.”

“It’s a bloated, out-of-control government, and it’s not just a Republican or Democrat thing, but big, stupid government making our life harder, not easier.”

She talked about an Illinois farmer who told President Obama that he preferred starting his day in a tractor or combine cab rather than filling out forms or applications for permits.

In an ideal world, presumably, farmers could spray unregulated pesticides wherever and wherever they want, fill in wetlands full of useless birds, and be free of the burden of price supports and crop insurance, for Freedom.

Most of the rest of the speech was standard Palin boilerplate, with the usual shots at “elitists on both coasts” and praise for the good souls in "flyover country," who Palin compared to the beef patties in a hamburger or the creamy filling in an Oreo cookie: “You’re the meat and the sweet stuff.”

Oh, no, Sarah. You are.

[ Tri-State Neighbor ]