Ill fares the land; the famine planned for America

254 Pages·1966·2.781 MB·English

by  Dan P Van Gorder

Front Cover
ILL FARES THE LAND
ILL FARES
THE LAND

THE FAMINE PLANNED FOR AMERICA

DAN P. VAN GORDER
INTRODUCTION BY TOM ANDERSON

WESTERN ISLANDS
PUBLISHERS
BOSTON LOS ANGELES
CONTENTS

Introduction vii-xii
Foreword xiii-xiv
One: Ill Fares the Land 1
Two: The Overproduction Hoax 8
Three: Shifting the Scenery 21
Four: High Placed Half Truths 27
Five: Rigging the Records 36
Six: Clearing the Atmosphere 43
Seven: The Saga of the Spud 49
Eight: The Mystery of Circular No. 296 57
Nine: Our Once Booming Cattle Industry 64
Ten: Wheat—Whither and How? 70
Eleven: The Wirt Tragedy 80
Twelve: Too Much Uncle Sam 85
Thirteen: The Farmer Pays the Price 93
Fourteen: Tariffs and Farming 99
Fifteen: Government and Farming 110
Sixteen: National Self-sufficiency 119
Seventeen: Technology and Farming 125
Eighteen: Labor Unions and Farming 132
Nineteen: Farmers and "The Farm Problem" 143
Twenty: An American Answer to the "Farm Problem" 154
Twenty-one: Appalachia Revisited 163
Twenty-two: The Colquitt Plan 174
Twenty-three: The Forest and the Free Press 182
Twenty-four: Return to the Land 187
Twenty-five: The Appalling Question 198
About the Author 204
Appendix 205
Index 237
INTRODUCTION

When an article entitled "Planned Famine" appeared in the June 20, 1966
issue of the DAN SMOOT REPORT many people paled. Many were unbelieving.
Everybody wanted more facts. A question went out to author, Dan P. Van
Gorder, asking whether he could write a book on the subject. He could, and did,
in short order.
Was it possible that, behind the beguiling propaganda about
overproduction surpluses, was a hoax and that actually we were
underproducing; that, in an increasingly hostile world, we were setting
ourselves up for acute food shortage? The answers are in this volume.
This intriguing book is only for people directly concerned with agriculture
and foreign policy in other words, a book for every taxpaying, responsible
citizen. It is a crime story. This book, as no other agriculture book has done,
solves the crime and tells where the bodies are hidden. It is required reading for
farmers and taxpayers who want to know the truth about that fantastic fraud
called the "farm problem." For there is no real farm problem and there hasn't been
for years except the problem deliberately manufactured and perpetuated by the
pinks, punks and collectivists in the United States Department of Agriculture,
Department of State, and elsewhere.
As Dan P. Van Gorder shows, we face a possible food crisis in America.
We also face possible insolvency and surrender. Why? Because it was and is
planned that way, not only in the USDA and State, but also in Commerce,
Defense and other departments of our government, as a combination of do-
gooders, Socialists and Communists try to level us down and merge us into a
One-World Socialist state under the Communist and liberal-cannibal club
commonly known as the United Nations.
While the author dwells at some length on the Communist cell in the
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era, he does not attempt to prove that any Communists are still there. Nor does he
need to. What is important is not how many collectivists or dupes there are, but
who and where they are. And what is more important than whether any carry
Communist cards, is whether they help Communists achieve their goals. By their
fruits not by their cards ye shall know them.
The American government, for the past forty years, has done more to help
Communism succeed than have all the non Communist nations of the world
combined. Results outrank motives. For whatever reasons, our leaders have
delivered our machinery, equipment, animals, chemicals, people, and know-how
to the enemy on credit.
The present farm program is a program of socialistic stupidity, planned
poverty and calculated treason which menaces the future of our nation and the
freedom of the world.
The author shows how agricultural bureaucrats have used statistics like a
drunk uses a lamp-post: for support instead of illumination. For without this big
statistical lie the American people would not sit still for the great farm fraud. Al
Smith used to say: "Let's look at the record." The trouble with the farm record is,
to paraphrase another favorite cliché: Records don't lie, but liars do record.
The expensive "farm problem" was made in Washington by cheap
politicians. Of course no farm program can solve the "farm problem" unless that
program is accompanied by a free economy program a tax program, an anti-
inflation program and a foreign aid program which release the farmer from his
cost-price squeeze, improve his competitive position and broaden his markets.
The farmer needs an end to union racketeering, monopoly, and restraint of
trade not unionization of farming. The farmer needs a balanced budget—not more
billions spent on socializing the country. The farmer needs lower prices for the
things he buys, not artificially higher prices for his government subsidized
production. The farmer needs less non-farmer subsidies not more farmer
subsidies. The farmer needs the right to produce not more curbs on his
production; more markets not fewer: and he needs less government—not more.
And so do all good citizens.
For almost 40 years our agricultural programs have wound their tortuous
and expedient paths along a road as crooked as a Teamsters Union boss.
For almost 40 years the bureaucrats farming the farmers and milking the
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while the number of farmers has dropped. As the author conclusively proves, the
only real surplus is a surplus of government workers, government interference
and government lying.
The fewer the farmers there are to serve, the more money and people it
takes to do it. The fewer the chicks the bigger the government brooder. Soon
there may be more people in the USDA farming the farmers than there are people
farming the land.
Already and we've seen only the beginning unless there is a tremendous
reversal in our headlong rush to collectivism the government spends more on
agriculture, per farmer, than most farmers make from farming.
The American public has never been allowed to view the real issues of the "farm
problem" in their proper perspective. It has been like the case of the nearsighted
poultry scientist who tried to cross a rooster with a rooster: all he got was two
cross roosters. Most people who know the truth wouldn't tell it, even if they could
find some publisher who would print it.
"The public just doesn't understand," declaim the agricultural politicians,
bemoaning the fact that agriculture has become a whipping boy. That's right. If
the public did understand and reading this book would go a long way toward
accomplishing that there would be a bunch of congressmen plowed under.
Farming is now a business for those who produce the products and a way of
life for the phonies who farm the farmers. Billions of dollars have been stolen
from the American taxpayer "to help the poor little farmer." But the poor little
farmer got virtually none of it. For when the government gravy bowl runneth
over, the bureaucrats have all the spoons and the poor little farmers have only
forks. But, hundreds of millions of the taxpayers' dollars have been given to rich
absentee landlords who cultivate nothing but the ASC (Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service) offices.
Naturally, most people mistakenly assume that, just because our
government has spent more on "the farm program" since 1932 than on anything
else except Defense, the farmers have gotten the benefits. The farmers
particularly the little ones who needed help most have received crumbs from the
table. I believe it is safe to say that our government has given more help to the
enemies of the United States than to our own bottom-fringe farmers the poor little
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points out, our lying bureaucrats, while pouring our agricultural "surpluses" into
the potholes of the world, have slyly encouraged importation of huge amounts of
many of those same "in-surplus" commodities.
An Arkansas farmer who defied the federal farm agents and "over-planted"
has been dispossessed, heavily fined, and has had his farm confiscated and sold
for auction to satisfy the claims against him while that same government buys
some of the same commodities from our Communist enemies. The Arkansas
farmer is only one of many who have been openly and covertly punished for
exercising traditional American freedom.
In this country we have been plagued by agricultural "surpluses" because a
fraudulent federal bureaucracy needed an excuse to keep the inmate in a
straitjacket. Under our foreign dumping program, as surpluses have been reduced,
price supports and imports have been increased, thus rebuilding "surpluses" and
retaining the problem. Price supports and controls have dried up markets, caused
phony "over production" and "surplus," and lowered farm income by an estimated
2 billion dollars a year. As Dr. Harrell DeGraff, noted Cornell agricultural
economist, has said: "Over the past 35 years, during which so-called surpluses
have been almost chronic, a modest 2 per cent increase in livestock could have
eaten up all the surpluses. This would have happened had agriculture been free."
But if agriculture had been free, several hundred thousand government
bureaucrats would have had to go to work—or join the Poor Corps.
The Socialists, fools, fatheads and half-brights running our government
have seen to it that our farmers are forced to produce for the government instead
of for the market. They have given, lent, sold for "soft currency/' boondoggled,
bribed and rat-holed more than 120 billion dollars worth of goods and goodies
into 99 so-called countries since 1945, like a madman slopping a million hogs
with the seed corn of future generations. While we spent billions the enemy spent
peanuts. While we exported the know-how, the wherewithal, and the right-to-
produce to friend and enemy worldwide, the enemy enslaved 40 per cent of the
world's people and 25 per cent of the land mass and now asks: "What have you
done for us lately?"
It is a fair question to ask: "If Russia has accomplished so

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much by giving away so little, how come we have accomplished so little by
giving away so much?"
We don't give money, only. We give motors, generators, clothing, trucks,
factories, food machinery, metals, medicine and raw materials. Thus Big
Business, Big Unions and corporate farmers (who produce most of our so-called
surpluses) have pressured Congress quietly to continue the fantastic foreign aid
giveaway in order to perpetuate their own subsidies.
We are not competitive in world markets any more because government
bureaucracy, regimentation and controls have supplanted supply and demand. To
compensate for our loss of chicken markets to the Common Market, our leaders
created a dynamic new export: doves to Moscow. There is seemingly no bag limit
on doves for Moscow my fine feathered friends and it's open season year round.
In fact, our government actually pays a bounty on doves for the enemy, bribing
our farmers to produce wheat for government storage bins to be given to Russia,
which could conceivably corner the world wheat market. Thus, our bureaucratic
bounty hunters build up Russia "so she will no longer be afraid of us." What we
should be most afraid of is not Russia but the traitors in Washington who are
helping Russia, Red China and other enemies. Our leaders Democrat and
Republican have tried to bribe and buy the world with handouts, either as a
substitute for a foreign policy or in order to make the world safe for Communism.
The present United States Government plans to buy the world. The
Communists plan to own it. Ours is the only nation in recorded history whose
leaders deliberately and continuously trade to lose. Ours is the only nation whose
leaders could have done what they've done for thirty years without being tried for
treason. Part conspiracy, part practical vote-buying politics, part mistakes. But
some politicians have never made a mistake in our favor. Mistakes, of course, are
not treason; and treason is not a mistake. Where does One-World Socialism end
and treason begin?
The author warns us of an American famine, while Caesar-Bird pours our (not
his) birdseed and suet, milk and honey into the bottomless bellies of the world,
escalating the "War on Hunger" as he tries to establish in Vietnam a position of
strength from which to surrender.
Some may feel incredulous at the author's amazing statistical reporting and
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famine in America. But no honest and knowledgeable person will deny that
whether we face re-established "surpluses" or famine, the collectivists running us
have no intention of setting the farmer free. There will be continued production
controls and price controls. Price control is people control. And people control is
the goal of The Great Society.
TOM ANDERSON
Nashville, Tennessee

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