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Widen, they have stepped up to the plate. you wouldn t know one of those democrat, one of them is a republican. they are concerned about this issue. they are looking at it from a rural perspective and consumer standpoint, and they re saying this is the right thing to do. it has been a pleasure to work with those folks. it and a committee now. chairman stabenow did a great job in the hearing we had a couple days ago. and we re going to get this out of committee, we re going to get it to the senate floor, and hopefully we re gonna get it passed, because it s the right thing to do. rural america is important in this country. if we have the kind of leadership we need, and we ve seen good leadership out of the president as you pointed out with that editorial, but the bottom line is if we do nothing we re going to have the same result. we re going to see continual drying of rural america. it ll put our food chain at risk. consumers will pay a big price and this country will not be the same t
Need it to work, which is the efficient delivery of our food products to the marketplace. that line, capitalism isn t working, is something you might except expect to hear from bernie sanders somewhere. but it s a john tester line. look, it s not working because as you pointed out, we ve got monopolistic maker of the biggest packers who control over 80% of the food that s delivered in this country. it s not much different worldwide. four capitals and four were you have to have competition. if you have competition that s good for the folks underground, the cow calf operators in this case,. and it s good for the consumer. because it will help regulate prices. right now, that s not the case. the rangers are getting not near enough what they need to stay in business for their products, the calves. and on the other side of the equation, you have folks that are buying meat at the meat countered that are paying way way more than they should. if there is competition in this system, if capita
Consolidation in the industry. consumers are paying higher prices because without competition there set without regard to help with people can afford. we have seen a mass exodus off the land. rural america is drying up, on the other side of the equation we see consumers, who are being and treated unfairly in the marketplace because there s no competition. today, we can address both of those issues with these bills. and joining us now is the senior senator from montana, john tester. one thing that i love about our discussions on this program is anyone in this town of washington can come talk about politics. not everyone can talk about government. and not everyone can talk about government in a way that everyone can understand it. the way you approach this subject in that hearing yesterday, that line, and i ve heard you say something like this before, capitalism isn t working in this spot where we
And treated unfairly in the marketplace, because there s no competition. today, we can address both of those issues with these bills. and joining us now is the senior senator from montana, jon tester. one thing that i love about our discussions on this program is anyone in this town of washington can come talk about politics. not everyone can talk about government. and not everyone can talk about government in a way that everyone can understand it. the way you approach this subject in that hearing yesterday, that line, and i ve heard you say something like this before, capitalism isn t working in this spot where we need it to work, which is the efficient delivery of our food products to the marketplace. that line, capitalism isn t working, is something you might expect to hear from bernie sanders. but it s a jon tester line. look, it s not working, because as you pointed out,