Ginter says, "We can't have the disparity between low prices and high interest. It doesn't work. I don't care whether you're a family farmer or a laborer. It's okay to have credit but you've got to have a physical economy that's able to pay off the credit. It doesn't do any good to go to the bank to borrow anything if they don't have a decent wage to pay it back.
The failure of government to step in where the private sector won't, the failure of government to provide for the common welfare of Americans is no longer allowable. Government's "hands off approach to the economy must come to an end.
Ginter recalls a time when farmers had fair prices:
"I was born in '39. I went through what is called the parity years during the ˜40s. I didn't understand it cause I was a kid but Roosevelt knew that farmers needed a fair price for the products. So, they had this parity bill and it established a fair price for their grains plus a reasonable profit, which meant they were going to get a decent standard of living.
These New Deal farm policies have been gutted. Small towns of the ˜40s that had grocery stores, feed stores, lumber mills, gas stations, schools, churches, concerts, a movie theatre, etc have become what Ginter calls "bedroom towns and they no longer have stores, mills, gas stations, schools, concerts, a movie theatre, etc.
"That's what happens when you turn your back on family farmers and workers in this country, explains Ginter.
The Showdown in Chicago will give Ginter a "feeling of self-worth.
He passionately exclaims, "We are not sheep to be led to slaughter. And it's high time and these people in high places understand that we are human beings and we need a fair wage and housing and health care and decent jobs and good education.
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