Jim Goodman
Jim Goodman is a third-generation dairy farmer from Wonewoc, Wisconsin.
Articles by this author
 |
Views Friday, March 19, 2021 The Republican Party—Beyond the Pale Mitch McConnell, fine gentleman that he is, let us know he plans to launch a "scorched earth" policy if Democrats kill the filibuster. To be accurate though, he's just planning to maintain the scorched earth policy he has been practicing ever since he became Majority Leader in 2015. He has done... Read more |
 |
Views Monday, January 18, 2021 After Four Years, Accountability Is Long Overdue The sacking of the US Capitol on January 6 was not at all surprising . Not surprising that Trump would encourage it, not surprising that those who had swilled his Kool-Aid would so willingly violate the US Constitution they claim to defend but clearly do not comprehend. The president had been... Read more |
 |
Views Tuesday, December 08, 2020 As The Pandemic Worsens, Politics and Ego Are More Important Than Public Health Rev. Marlin Lavanhar of Tulsa Oklahoma notes that “There are a lot of people who are fasting right now in Oklahoma, not by choice.” Tulsa is not alone, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges , with limited or no income, 16.5% of the US population face food insecurity during the... Read more |
 |
Views Friday, October 30, 2020 How Decades of Corporate-Friendly Farm Policies Wrecked Rural America—And Paved the Way for Trump My father was born in 1903 and in his 92 years he saw the transformation of farming — from horses to tractors, hand labor to mechanization — that occurred in the 20 th century. I farmed that same Wisconsin land for 40 years and in that span of time I, too, saw dramatic changes in the... Read more |
 |
Views Tuesday, September 08, 2020 The Party Formerly Known as Republican “The Republican National Committee (RNC) enthusiastically supports President Trump and continues to reject the policy positions of the Obama-Biden Administration, as well as those espoused by the Democratic National Committee today … [and that] the Republican Party has and will continue to... Read more |
 |
Views Saturday, May 23, 2020 Make a Resilient, Localized Food System Part of the Next Stimulus From wasted food to the exploitation of farmworkers, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it painfully clear that this country’s food system must be changed. Politicians must pass further stimulus legislation that includes policy to reform our inflexible, consolidated food system to prepare for future... Read more |
 |
Views Friday, May 08, 2020 That This System Would Fail Was Entirely Predictable As we face empty grocery shelves the fragility of our highly consolidated food system has become clear during the crisis of COVID-19. We see a market that lacks the resiliency to shift supply lines and fill those shelves, but also a food system that does not provide (and in most cases never has... Read more |
 |
Views Wednesday, February 19, 2020 Bloomberg Won’t, As They Say, Play Well in Peoria, But Then, Neither Should Trump It seems that having money, plenty of money, must somehow bestow a certain sense of omniscience upon the very wealthiest in society, making some of them feel that they are uniquely qualified to hold political office. It would appear, unfortunately, that there are many voters and media outlets who... Read more |
 |
Views Thursday, August 22, 2019 Farmers Need a Bill of Rights On January 11, 1944 in his annual State of the Union Address, President Roosevelt noted that while the Constitution guaranteed a set of political rights, they were in some respects inadequate. To ensure equality, Roosevelt proposed an Economic Bill of Rights that would guarantee: Full employment... Read more |
 |
Views Monday, June 17, 2019 Current Farm Crisis Offers Opportunity For Change JFK, as it turns out, was not correct when he noted 60 years ago that the word 'crisis' is a combination of the Chinese brush strokes meaning danger and opportunity. While he was linguistically incorrect, we get what he was saying. A crisis situation can be the impetus for change, an opportunity to... Read more |