Article: One and one half cheers for David Stockman. (Down on the farm -II) (farm crisis in the United States)

FEW ISSUES this year have generated more hysteria than the problems of American agriculture. You can be sure that common sense has departed when a congressional panel reverentially takes testimony on the farm crisis from actresses who recently played farm wives in the movies. Tears flowed copiously from the lovely eyes of Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, and Jane Fonda as they described their feelings for beleaguered farmers. Miss fonda's testimony was especially credible--after all, she is the second generation of Fonda thespians to play a farmer. Another sure sign that agriculture is an issue whose time has come: The Catholic bishops have issued a manifesto declaring that ...

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