20 we also provide the greatest national defense umbrella. It seems very likely to me that if these nations or economic blocks were required to provide the full cost for their own national defense, then they would not have quite the "surplus" of funds currently available to underwrite their agricultural support systems. Quite possibly, one means of reducing the budgetary cost of U.S. agricultural programs is not to reduce U.S. program expenditures directly and severely modify our policy framework, but rather to identify and modify other programs in our international policy that unreasonably or unwittingly provide funding options for other nations to "unfairly" compete with us. (Attachment follows:) OREGON OREGON WHEAT GROWERS LEAGUE Pondielen Oregon 97801 PRICE STABILITY FOR WHEAT Presented to the National Association of Wheat Growers Executive |