Mr. bean, I find that in your long winded drivel, you do make a point, and it is a sad one. Our farming community nowadays is heavily dependent on that guvment check. Thanks go to the godfather of American Socialism, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Do they have to be? I don't think so. It'll be a good day when I hear ANY Arkansas politician espouse publicly that it is High Time our government considers eliminating the agricultural community from the long list of those suckling at the government teat.

randalbean for inbred of the year..................... he has my vote.

Randal - Get back on your meds before you hurt yourself.

I e-mailed some questions to the website of Beth A. Rankin, and so far I haven't seen a response. I'd like to know if she got paid to give advice to human sacrifice/death cult leader Mike Huckabee - who was my pastor for awhile at Immanuel Baptist Church in Pine Bluff. The reason why I'm curious about that is because every Republican politician claims to be in-favor of smaller government and cutting the budget. An in-depth examination of the Beth A. Rankin political website shows that most of it was quoted from the Republican Party book of propaganda. Does Beth A. Rankin have even one thought that's an original thought of her own? Does she have an idea for even one bill that she'd like to introduce that is unique to her? She seems to want to be like a Stepford wife - she will vote for what the male Republican leader wants her to vote for, and against what she's told to vote against. Her television ad is funny, because the intent is to give unsophisticated citizens the idea that her dad made his money by being a free-market, free-enterprise capitalist. Does she think that otherwise people would think he was a communist? He made his primary living in farming, but that's not a purely-capitalist business, because it has to be run with socialist interventions. Agricultural production does not work well-enough as a purely free-market deal. It's obvious to me that Beth A. Rankin doesn't have a clue about how our economy functions.