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Farm Leader's Question Cut From Obama Town Hall Broadcast
Tue, 21 Sep 2010 6:25:32 CDT
President Obama's insistence Monday during a town hall forum broadcast live on CNBC that his economic proposals are not anti-business or anti-Wall Street and that his policies need more time to bear fruit didn't go over well with Kansas Farm Bureau President Steve Baccus.
At CNBC's request, Baccus taped a question to Obama that didn't make the hour-long broadcast. Baccus asked why the President talked about wanting to help small businesses and farms- and then allowed his Administration to add more and more regulations and costs to doing business- to the point that survival was getting more and more difficult.
The question that the farm leader submitted did not make it- and Baccus says one of the reasons was that the President was too busy making campaign points instead of listening to the people.
During the Town Hall- the President contended that things will get better- "Everything I'm doing is thinking about how do we grow this economy and how we grow this middle class. It has not happened fast enough. I know how frustrated people are."
We have audio comments with the farm leader- and you can hear those comments by clicking on the LISTEN BAR below. In addition- here is one account of the Town Hall thru the eyes of a Washington Times Reporter.
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