work quietly reintegrated into the irish forces after the war, a blatant injustice according to patty reed. his father was among the first to desert and join the british army. he spent four years in india fighting the japanese and was highly decorated. he mainly remembers the poverty of his childhood because his father, in reality a war hero, was suddenly treated as an outcast. >> the big companies locally, the transport companies, the dock shipping companies -- he was on a list. i am the oldest in my family, and mike early memories of growing up were not enough food. no money coming in. he was not able to work. he just could not get a job. >> what was known as the starvation order had almost 5000 names on it. there was a copy to be found in all government and personnel offices. anyone on it would not be given a job. >> his name was there. date of birth, it had all of it. psychologically for the family, but to was very difficult. just the thoughts of my early memories of going to the pawn shop. back in those days, we had pawnshops. whatever she could get -- pair of shoes or something -- sh

and yet, the policy that the hare reed harry reid is going to do significant harm to the american public and economy and listening to howard dean and patty mor i are they are ab -- murray absolutely willing in taking america over the cliff and putting us into another recession. it's because of the policy they're promoting. i'm against that. you can't be for jobs and against the very people who create the jobs. two years ago 40 democrats voted to keep the tax rates at the same rate they had been at. to not raise taxes on anyone in economic times like these. that is the very policy that harry reid is bring together floor the senate. i think we should reject it. thank you. >> you know, when i saw this proposal yesterday i asked my staff to look at missouri numbers. 100,000 farms in missouri. it's the second i highest number of farms in the country. it's the second biggest state in the country. they must be relative some are relative small farms. they are working farms, family farms 100,000 of them. the average farmer in the country is app 57 years old. most can't be passed along. you can easily have half a million dollar in farm commitment.