President George W. Bush initially vetoed the 2008 US Farm Bill, and Washington insiders say he was hostile to it at every turn. "It was a highly ideological and rigid approach to negotiating with Congress," says Earl Pomeroy (Democrats), who is in the House of Representatives on behalf of the state of North Dakota. He was very involved in the process of authorising the monstrous 300 billion dollar piece of legislation. "He walked away from the opportunity to be involved; it was irresponsible, ideological nonsense." Bush's approach was much more related to an ideology of imposing caps for public farm funding, meant to decentralise market share and curb government support of vertically integrated firms. In 2007, the Bush administration had announceda proposal to disqualify producers with a net income above 250,000 dollar from receiving government subsidies.
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