<b>Green Acres </b><br><br> "Darling, I love you, but give me Park Avenue."

WSJ ^ | 12/16/07 | WSJO editorial

[george76]

Thanks.

Sam Donaldson was on one of these lists, too ?

Congress could easily set rules to primarily help the small family farmer, but they choose otherwise.

It is not good that the swells like Ted Turner are repeatedly left in.

[bert]

Paul allen took his subsidy and grew a weed..... Charter Communications

[stevie_d_64]

oink...oink

[snort] hehehe

[BIGLOOK]

Good morning!

The instructions said HTML ok, so I screwed up. But I like your interpretation better.

It is cold and stormy here and we've had snow for two weeks now.

[BIGLOOK]

Good morning George,

Notice that the biggest supporters in congress are mostly Dems. I suspect the wealthiest recipients of subsidies are too.

Where I grew up in upstate NY, nearly all farms (dairy, orchards and vegetable crops) were small farms, 200-1000 acres. At that time they were being bought up by investors from NYC and elsewhere. They were still run by the farmers who sold them or if they retired, by contract managers who were farmers or Ag grads without the capital to start up their own enterprise.

Just down the road was a large Angus farm that was once owned by Bob Crosby (Bing's brother). It was showcase, Angus cattle and thoroughbred horses, but was sold off the a group from the city, added to numerous holdings in five states. There was a huge scandal there, selling sterile bulls and shipping livestock all over to other ranches and farms.....basically disappearing in transit. All of this stuff became a tax write off for the owners who also collected on the insurance.

The farms kept going for years.....enough years for all the legal wheeling dealing involved in changing ag land to developments, turning farms into suburbs.

[BIGLOOK]

Thanks for the site. Checked a few states and recipients.....that ain’t chump change.

[BIGLOOK]

Here’s today’s quiz: What do Scottie Pippen, David Letterman and Ted Turner have in common?

Other than successful and extremely wealthy in other endeavors, I don't know.

[BIGLOOK]

These farmland use restriction payments do absolutely nothing for farms below a certain minimum size.

Which is why the small farmer ekes out a living the hard way.

[george76]

There is a mutual relationship between the democrat politicians who promote leaving loop holes for their democrat friends like Ted Turner...who then return the favor with campaign money.

Then city liberals can blame small, family, working ranchers and farmers for getting 'welfare.'

These city liberal complaints mute the truth as the media protects their democrat friends.