Stopping imports from a truly evil slave state like Cuba is hardly arbitrary. Stopping imports just because they are cheaper is!
I WAS going to call the detractors "uneducated," but that's no longer the case. They have been given plenty of facts, and have chosen to ignore them...thus, they have become either "imbeciles" or "traitors" in my book.
If anyone in the la-la land of the cities actually believes that farmers are becoming rich land barons with government subsidies, they are seriously lacking in I.Q. The subsidies exist to MAKE THE COST OF RAW MATERIALS CHEAPER FOR THE PROCESSORS.
Does anyone honestly believe that FARMERS have any voice in this? Does it occur to the mental midgets that maybe, just maybe, the hundreds of thousands of campaign dollars spent by ADM, Tyson, General Mills et.al. might just result in a subsidy to the farmer (how convenient that THEY won't be blamed) so that they have a lower raw material cost?
And don't even get me started on the "Board of Trade." A necessary device for trading in the early 1900's..you know, before PHONES, for Pete's sake...let alone the internet. It has become nothing more than a vehicle for a bunch of worthless middlemen to skim money from the hard work of others.