Re: Salatin's comment on Ron

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From: " Nanette J. Landen " <nlanden@...>

> This is so cool! Salatin is a fulltime farmer in Virginia’s Shenandoah

> Valley. He is famous in organic farming circles. He runs Polyface farm -

> his link is here:

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> http://www.polyfacefarms.com/schedule.aspx

>

> Salatin says:

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> “I’ve never felt as comfortable with a Presidential candidate as I do this

> year with Ron . Generally the conservatives worship Wall Street, the

> military industrial complex, and American empire building around the world.

> The liberals worship government agencies, government solutions, and never

> saw a tax they didn’t like or a baby worth saving. So where does a guy turn

> who wants small government, no subsidies, pro-life, no corporate welfare,

> and a hoe-your-own-garden military? Finally we have a candidate: Ron .

> “The reason the mainstream can’t handle him is because he doesn’t fit the

> stereotypes. And therein lies his strength. As a Christian libertarian

> environmentalist capitalist, Ron embodies the reasonable approach to

> thorny issues. He would rein in the globalists by unleashing grass roots

> entrepreneurs. That’s true free marketing, not pseudo free marketing via

> corporate welfarism and criminalizing small business. He thinks we should be

> able to choose what to eat and how to educate rather than big brother

> government being the only credible approval source.

>

> “Rather than squandering the nation’s treasury and goodwill to insure

> cheap oil, he would unfetter backyard tinkerers whose 100-mile-per-gallon

> carburetors and cottage-sized alternative fuel prototypes could make the

> U.S. energy independent. He understands that the real answers do not come

> from the top down, but always come from the bottom up. And that is why he

> often casts the solitary opposition vote in Congress. Bless him.”

>

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> Nanette

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[Guest guest]

where is this quote from?

AND did anyone join in on the recent Salatin conference call? -Allan