Round Robineer

The Senate approved CAFTA, which benefits rice farmers in Louweezieanna because our friends south of the border don't grow rice, but hurts the many family run sugar cane farms because there's a lot of sweet gold in Central America. Both Landrieu and Vitter voted against CAFTA. Now it goes to the House in August, where our Reps will vote against it also, and where it has a slim chance of getting defeated. But in the end, cheaper imports ultimately means better prices for consumers, but the eventual loss of family farms in the Pelican State. Seems like the sugar lobby ain't what it use to be. Maybe we should put tolls up in Lake Charles to collect a fee on all of the imports that will be flowing east on I-10 to Yankee land.