Word: kelleyism
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...Kelley's farming backgound may explain her concern for the land and the environment. Kelley, whose family has been in farming for several generations, said of her interest in farming, "I think its genetic." Kelley wanted to be a farmer even as a young girl, she recalls, although her mother, a Chicago opera singer, encouraged her to pursue ballet...
...Kelley, who operates a grain farm and cattle ranch with her husband and lobbies for the Rocky Mountain Farmer's Union, feels that there are serious problems with the nation's farm policy...
...Reagan administration has passed "the most expensive farm bill in history that does the least," Kelley says. She says that present farm policies are helping large "corporate" farmers more than they help the individual farmer. "We've subsidized corporate farming the most which has needed it the least," Kelley says...
...total debt U.S. agricultural debt has piled up to $214 billion, more than the combined foreign debt of Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, she says, arguing that "It is sad that we can let these countries off the hook" while the government sends foreclosure notices to American farms. Kelley, who proposes a three-year moratorium on farm foreclosures, says that next month the government will send out 65,000 foreclosure notices...
...Kelley expresses a Jeffersonian concern for the survival of the small farmer. "I see us destroying a way of life, destroying one of the most critical segments of the foundation of democracy," she says...