Farmer Tells Obama, “Please Don’t Challenge Us with More Rules and Regulations”; Obama Tells the Man, “Call the USDA” – Video 8/17/11

This is an incredibly revealing clip from President Obama’s “Non-Campaign” Campaign Bus Tour, as he took questions during a stop in Illinois.

An Illinois farmer gets called on, and he tells Obama that he is a farmer who enjoys growing “corn and soybeans.” His statement to President Obama was out of this world good:

“Mother Nature has really challenged us this growing season – moisture, drought, whatever. Please don’t challenge us with more rules and regulations from Washington D.C. that hinder us from doing that. We would prefer to start our day in a tractor cab or combine cab rather than filling out forms and permits to do what we like to do.”

He had barely gotten the words out of his mouth before Obama was shouting that “we have the Secretary of Agriculture here,” and then proceeded to tell the farmer not to “believe everything you hear.”

The farmer is concerned about the ridiculous burdensome regulations from USDA, the EPA, the Agriculture Department, etc. Obama then had the audacity (he has a lot of that) to tell the farmer to “call the USDA” if he has concerns.

Are you kidding? Obama talked right past the man. He did not hear what the farmer was really saying with his statement: “Leave us the heck alone and let us do our job and live our lives without interference from the Government!!”

That kind of common sense thinking is just not a part of Obama’s world. Big Government and burdensome regulation is all he knows.

Over at The Corner, they link to a reporter who actually did what Obama suggested: Call the USDA!