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With record food prices and record farm profits, why record farm subsidies?

Hello again, I'm Mormon-Aulny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues, Americans care about most.

Increased farm subsidies have made strange bedfellows of environmentalists and the Bush administration. They agree that the big federal money goes to big agribusiness at the expense of the little guys, not what subsidies were designed to do.

Even the Wall Street Journal calls the new farm bill a millionaire safety net which raises taxes to pay off the rich.

On to the point, what does it mean for the environment?

What are the prospects of another bubble with results like those for dot-coms and housing?

On reporter's notebook later on, Reverend Jeremiah Wright goes public. Again, first

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John D. and Catherine T. McArthur

Foundation. Hello again, Mormon-Aulney, back with To the Point. Food prices are setting records,

and so are the profits of farmers. So why is Congress at work on a farm bill with more federal

subsidies than ever before? On To the Point, even Iowa Senator Tom Harkin calls it free money.

Will the rich be getting richer at the expense of the

environment, small farmers, and American consumers? On reporter's notebook, Jeremiah Wright, spoke to

the National Press Club today. We'll hear what he said about patriotism, Louis Farrakhan, and Wright's

own relationship to Barack Obama. First, this news update, a week before Indiana's presidential

primaries, the U.S. Supreme Court today upheld that state's law requiring photo identification when voters go to the polls.

David Stout reports for the New York Times, and David, thanks a lot for joining us.

Nice to be here.

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