Vilsack: Government needs to work with rural America

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. (AP) — The government needs to work with rural America to create not only more jobs, but better-paying jobs, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday.

Vilsack spoke at a forum at the University of Missouri Delta Center, an agricultural research facility near the Missouri Bootheel town of Portageville, about 170 miles south of St. Louis. Many of the 150 or so people in attendance were farmers or worked in ag-related jobs in surrounding small towns.

“Sometimes we think any job is something we should focus on,’’ said Vilsack, the former governor of Iowa before joining the Obama Administration. “We sometimes undermarket and undersell rural communities as a place to live and raise families.’’


U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack at an appearance Monday in Colorado.

The nation’s economic downturn has affected communities big and small, but the rural economy has been particularly hard-hit.


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[Iowa]

1. More empty rhetoric from a republican-lite sell-out...

And empty rhetoric is all you'll ever get from this turd, because this is a guy who would scurry off to get permission from Monsanto before actually DOING anything. We had to endure this load as Iowa governor for 8 years. He was as useless as tits on a boar (an old farm saying).