I was raised on a farm. In church, we would here about people starving in Africa. Then a man from the government would come around to inspect our farm to guarantee that certain fields lay fallow, and he would give dad a check for those fields to remain unproductive.
My dad was a really smart man. I asked him to explain the contradiction to me, starving kids and getting paid not to grow food.
He couldn’t.
I remember stories about farmers being paid not to grow.
I remember when a story chin in Cal wanted to charge less for milk than the government allowed. Gotta stick to the government price.
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