[crazyshrink]

Ignorance must be bliss. A few years ago when prices were lower, the usda paid farmers the difference between a target price and the actual price. It had nothing to do with the price that cargill, your local wheat grinder, etc. paid for raw crops mush less the consumer.

[az_gila]

I thought the best example was a CA Central Valley rancher who was interviewed a while back in front of his hangar and his $1,000,000+ racing P-51 plane explaining on TV why he deserved a govt. subsidy....
IIRC, it was because all the farmers got one, whether it was a good year or a bad year...