I take it then that you have no problem with welfare, farm subsidies, and other vote-buying schemes? Am I talking to a leftist?
Have you ever seen how much of our tax dollars go to Saudi Arabia? Egypt? Palestinians? And the list goes on and on.
How can you begrudge helping people who are suffering?
Farm subsidies, glad you brought that up. My neighbors that are farmers seem to have the money to go to Mexico, Canadaian fishing trips, expensive hunting lodges. I never figured out how they could do that 'till I went to www.ewg.org. They are bilking us for more than Khofi ever dreamed of.
My father (who was a farmer) said that all the government programs do is to keep the poor manager and lazy farmer in business.