MS. OLESON: I'm going to ask you a favor. I've been here since 9:30. I missed the introduction of the panel, so before I tell you who I am, and I know other people must be in this situation, would you just take a minute and tell us who you are.

SECRETARY JUDGE: We'll do this very, very quick.

I'm Secretary of Agriculture from Iowa, Patty Judge.

MR. GRAU: I'm Tom Grau, Deputy Under-Secretary for the USDA.

MS. STATTLEMAN: I'm Mary Jane Stattleman with the Kansas Ag, Secretary of Ag.

MR. NEFF: I'm Steve Neff. I'm with the U.S. trade representatives.

MR. SAUNDERS: I'm John Saunders, the Director of Agriculture for Missouri.

MR. ACETA: And I'm Paul Aceta from the Department of the State.

MS. OLESON: Thank you very much. My name is Clara Oleson. I'm a national board member of the Alliance for Democracy, which is to the left of Lyndon LaRouche, a membership organization with chapters in 23 states, and we are working to ensure the restoration of economic and political democracy. And I first of all want to thank you for meeting in one of Iowa's most important public places, our State Historical Society because this is really a tribute to our feeling that we have to preserve and ground our history to maintain the values of our heritage.

That heritage of independent landowners, hardworking men and women, though the women seem to be most absent today, creating opportunities for their children is now in shambles throughout this region. And so I want you to look beyond the waving corn stalks of green to see that Iowa is now 42nd in the nation in wages. A telemarketing firm, APAC, is the third largest private employer in the state, and a grocery staffed by teenagers, Hy-Vee, is the largest prime employer.

Thomas Jefferson ideals are ill-served by nearly half of Iowa farmers who are tenant owners. We are exploited by IBP who takes $5 million in public assistance to -- under the Iowa Industrial New Jobs Training Program under various tax abatement policies, and yet does not consider this a subsidy, and who also tolerates double the worker injury rate in an industry which is already the most dangerous in America. IBP, by the way, in this region, Kansas, Iowa, et cetera, is the creator for immigration policy, not the state.

Our problem in this region, among others, is price: The price of corn and soybeans we grow, the price of our labor, price of the hogs we raise. And we want to stop the corporate feeding frenzy of our labor, our land, and our future. We are wasted by the externalities of factory farming. It's hog shit. It's 12-hour workdays. It's campaign financing in the political process. It's low wages. We are ravaged by the continued demands for corporate welfare and public assistance.

The Osterberg (phonetic) study in Iowa showed that we give $1 billion per year in public assistance to corporations in the state alone, either through property tax abatement, tax incentives, loans and grants. ADM milks ethanol, Cargill with no shame, and not even in attendance, ask them about Eddyville.

Romanticized by the media, unknown by the vast majority of Americans, Iowans in the Midwest struggle. Wall Street, not Main Street, is booming, and our pursuit of happiness is fearful and doubtful of success, especially for our children.

Capitalists are good at raising capital. If they are attuned to global excess capacity, their profits might be more realistically secure. I have no illusion that capitalists are in any great shape these days. They do not make democracy. Look at Singapore. They do not engender economic justice or equality. Look at Bill Gates or Mr. Greenspan's crony relationship with hedge fund operators. They do not weave a social fabric of responsible stewardship and trust. Look at the fear, the fear we heard today to just label about GMOs. The fear of the consumer.

And so let me, as I see Mr. Blouin running to the mike, let me end by this, that go to Seattle, enjoy the espresso, but be haunted by the voices of the three-minute speakers today; the real creators of wealth on this earth, farmers and workers, and do not sleep at night without their desires for fairness and equity weaving into your hearts and your souls. We expect you, the rules negotiators, to do no less. And if you want the academic and the scholarly support of that, as from my law degree I know you will, here's the box. Read it. It is not just for the record. It is for your education about what is really happening here.