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Meghan Ford: Ending ag handouts would fight debt and obesity

Dear Editor: As we have seen from the debt debate debacle, there is no easy way to fix the financial crisis we have gotten ourselves into. This is going to be tough and we need true innovators and leaders in our Congress….As a struggling college student, I?d like to eat healthy, to help my brain function and to perform my best, but with these big ag subsidies, overly sugared groceries are all that I can afford. Where do our priorities as a nation lie when a bag of carrots costs more than a six-pack of Ramen noodles?

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