 I see what you mean. I see what you mean. Mark, I don't know. I'll read you a debate before I leave. I see you have to sit here and have a wave of still photography. We only let them come in, but we don't say so much from the right room. In the second wave of the TV, we'll let them feel good. We'll go into that first checkup. He is going to lay a pot of farm equipment. Tom Angod, how are you? I'm good. Small stick. Perfect. Down three. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Michael, I was in the North American Green Export Association. Joe Hampton, Rice Millers Association, Mr. President. Ed Anderson, National Grant, Mr. President. Merle Bailey, corn growers. Joanne Smith, the Calvary. Mr. President, will you veto this bill? It's not a pass. We haven't even opened a meeting yet. No questions. The growth is down, Mr. President. It looks like 2% for the year instead of 5%. Are you going to revise your estimate? No questions. Mr. President, let me open it by introducing you to these farm leaders, agricultural and business leaders from all across the United States. They spent an hour with me earlier this morning. They've been looking forward to this meeting with you, and they're all delighted to be here. I'll just turn it over to you at this point. I want to take a moment. It's a pleasure to have you here to talk about American agriculture. I don't have to tell any of you about how serious the problems are that are facing the American farmers. We're committed to working with the Congress to develop a farm bill which allows farmers to become more competitive in the world markets, while at the same time not harming our overall fiscal policy. We want a long-term solution, not a band-aid approach. Secretary Block has shared your concerns with me. I always welcome an opportunity to hear firsthand what's on your minds. So I'll turn the meeting over to you and look forward to your suggestions. Mr. President, one of the... Excuse me. How are you feeling, Mr. President? You're fine. That question will answer. Just fine. I didn't want to say this while they were still in here, but raising a few myself and butchering myself, don't you love that question when someone says, you raise them your yes, and then you can kill them? No. Annoying cattle, I usually reply, I can hardly wait. Mr. President, I think some of the important points that I'd like to make is that the agricultural policy that is developed with this farm bill really has to reach the realities of the situation. Right now we've got from one fourth of the farm debt that cannot be serviced, a situation that in some ways converts agriculture to a drag on the economy rather than a contributor to the economy. We've got a situation where we're kind of proposing an experiment in world markets. We don't know really how elastic that world market is and what it's going to cost, really to get the prices down to the extent that we can recapture that market share. We have a situation here where agriculture needs to fit into the rest of the economy and contribute. The problem being, can we really have a radical departure from, I'm not talking about a continuation of the present bill, but I'm talking about a radical departure from farm policy and still have as much agriculture out there as we want. In all honesty, I don't have very much to say this because I'll say right now that I'm a Republican, but in the Middle West where I am from the what people are feeling about the administration's proposal puts the Senate in jeopardy in the next election and it's very painful for me to say that. Well, it's painful for me to hear it also whether there's a problem, but my own feeling is that we have two problems. One is a short range with regard to those farmers in a desperate state principally because of our success in reducing inflation to the point that land values which had gone up as an inflation hedge and gets which borrowing had been done going down with this control of inflation. I don't think we can be trained for wanting to control inflation, but we have a very situation of some people made to suffer. So a short range program to help that in the long range we think that we should recognize that government has been the problem for a long time and the government has created an artificial situation. So government recognizing that can't be the first to just pull the rug out when an industry, kind of said it, but we look forward to a program that can over a period of time which people would see harder down here get farming into the back, into the marketplace and out into the market economy without this government interference that we've had.