by Patrick J. Buchanan – August 9, 1999
The Principle Group – Des Moines, Iowa

For many Americans, these are the best of times. Unemployment and interest rates are low, prices are stable, and on Wall Street the bulls have been running wild. But not everyone is marching in the great parade of American prosperity.

Look past those brimming silos and fields of corn, and you’ll see a harvest of heartache in the heartland of America. Those silos store last year’s crop that was packed in because prices were too low to turn a profit. As for those full fields, some of that crop may rot on the ground because farmers can’t afford to harvest it.