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nock Supervisors on November 7 “as one who is proud to be a Virginian, as my people before me,” and he reminded the Supervisors that they, too, are Virginians with a proud heritage. Virginia showed the way to the nation in the establishment of fundamental freedoms, and during the Civil War, Virginia “bore the brunt of 60 per cent of the major battles...yet was the first to get on its feet at the end.”
Now things are getting turned around, he went on. He said he’d read where two-thirds of the Department of Agriculture’s budget now goes for food stamps and similar programs. That’s a big change, from aiding agriculture to running a welfare program, he said, and something is wrong.
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