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Hotel Booking It's time for us to acknowledge one of America's greatest mistakes, a 140-year-old scheme that has failed at a cost of trillions of dollars, countless lives and immeasurable heartbreak: the settlement of the Great Plains.

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Travel Agency The plains, which have overtaken places like Appalachia to become by far the poorest part of the country, represent a monumental failure in American history. To understand more I came here to Loup County, officially the poorest county in the United States, with a per capita income of $6,600 (New York County, or Manhattan, is the nation's richest, at $90,900).

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Cheap Hotel In fairness, Loup doesn't look poor, and it's so rich in warmth, community spirit and old-fashioned friendliness that it's just about impossible for a stranger to pay for a meal here. The tiny school, the only one in the county, has student lockers with no locks; and outside, students' cars are not only unlocked, but the keys are left in the ignition.

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Flight Booking Yet Stewart Switzer, a 17-year-old senior, says that if he could go back in a time capsule and talk to his great-great-grandpa when he was settling here a century ago, his message would be: Don't stop here. Keep on going.

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Travel Agent It might have been sage advice. Loup County's population peaked at 2,188 in 1910, but now it's down to 600. It lost its only grocery store in August, and with people fleeing, an average house in Taylor, the county seat (population 180), goes for just $6,000.

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Hotel Chicago As my colleague Timothy Egan noted in a brilliant article about the Great Plains in The Times last year, more than 60 percent of the counties in the region lost population in the last decade. In North Dakota, 47 of 53 counties lost population, and at this rate it'll eventually have to merge again with South Dakota to create a single state of Dakota.

Online Booking This vast region in the middle of America, more than five times the size of California, now meets the 19th-century definition of frontier, with six or fewer people per square mile. Instead of the frontier closing, as Frederick Jackson Turner declared a century ago, it is expanding, and we may look back on large-scale settlement of the Plains as a fluke, a temporary domination now receding again.

Travel Health Insurance The aridity of the Great Plains is partly to blame for the failed land development here, but fault also lies in the vapidity of American farm programs which President Bush and Congress are now expanding. It was, after all, a web of subsidies and government land promotion schemes that lured people to the Great Plains in the first place.

Hotel Reservation President Bush signed a $180 billion farm bill this year, with the backing of many Democrats as well as Republicans, after a gutless surrender to lobbyists for wealthy farmers. But the program will actually aggravate rural distress.

London Hotel Booking Subsidies do nothing to help hard-working ranchers here, because the money overwhelmingly goes to crop farmers rather than livestock owners. Worse, much of the money goes to the most prosperous families (47 percent of commodity payments go to farmers whose household income is more than $135,000), who use the cash to buy up more land. Subsidies thus accelerate the consolidation of farms that is already depopulating rural areas.

Discount Travel Tom McNeil, a genial 66-year-old cowboy, has a sprawling 5,000-acre ranch that a few generations ago would have supported many homesteading families. But now, with just a horse and a pickup and even after two heart bypasses and a heart transplant the tireless Mr. McNeil ranches the land singlehanded.

Orlando Hotel I thought that was something, and then he took me to a next-door neighbor (six miles away) who pretty much on his own ranches 12,000 acres.

Booking Agency Farm policy's focus needs to shift to rural business development, to help people find new sources of income. For example, a fourth-generation cattle ranching family here hopes to survive on its land by opening a cozy lodge so that tourists can come to hunt, fish or help with the branding (www.calamusoutfitters.com).

International Travel Medical President Bush's support for agricultural welfare (with considerable Democratic backing) contradicts every value he stands for and reflects a complete capitulation to a calculus of vote-buying. America's rural policy today is about where Soviet industry was in the 1980's: the leadership knows that its policies have utterly failed but lacks the courage to reform them.

New York Hotel By Nicholas D. Kristof
New York Times - 9/3/2002

Topic: Agriculture

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