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Isn’t that the point of the farm subsidies? As I understood it they were to keep some land non-producing so there wasn’t an over-abundance of crops. It was called the Land Bank if I’m recalling accurately. Large crops could cause the market prices to crash, thus driving many folks out of farming? It was meant to be a stabilizing force, also a force to protect the food supply. If a lot of folks left farming, big agg businesses included, there would soon be large food shortages..

Now, is it gamed? Isn’t everything? We have folks coming into this nation and ripping off everything they can to the bone. There are folks here too, that game the system I’m sure.

I grow weary of trying to keep all these programs straight. Unless you’re tuned in to them all the time, watching the day to day details, it easy to lose track of their value.

As I said, I have favored them. I know a lot of Conservatives don’t, because they don’t want to see government involvement outside of it’s main mandates. I can identify with that goal.

If it could be proven that this program did protect the food supply, it would seem to me to be something of decent value to everyone. Even though the government would take tax dollars to pay for non-production, the benefit would go directly to every taxpayer who goes to the super-market.

In some instance, I think government involvement can have benefit. I don’t always jump in to scream bloody murder when the government gets involved, but I think we can safely say were talking about the 0.5 to 2.5%, and not the 97.5 to 99.5%.