John McCain Needs an Education
I do not have to agree with every position taken by a candidate that I support but I do expect a candidate I support to tell the truth and be correctly informed about the issues. Thus I was extremely disturbed to hear what John McCain said in Missouri this week.
“My administration will reduce the price of food by eliminating the subsidies for ethanol and agricultural goods,” McCain told an invitation-only group at the Harry Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. “These subsidies inflate the price of food, not only for Americans but for people in poverty across the world, and I propose to abolish them.”
The evidence is overwhelming and indisputable that ethanol subsidies are not responsible for the increase in food prices. If John McCain does not want to support ethanol that is one thing but to spout this kind of falsehood on the campaign trail, in an agricultural state, is not being a maverick it is just being stupid.