ALL subsidies are BS. That being said, the set aside acres BS needs to stop, along with many other crappy farm programs. I come from the farm, I always thought a handout from the government was BS.
A buccaneer used to be a pretty darned high price for corn.
Now it is getting way too uncomfortably close to reality.
How can anyone talk about tax cuts when we are throwing around money like this. We just borrowed to pay out the stimulus package. Spending is far outpacing revenues. What is going on?
The vast majority of those $300 billion is for feeding “the poor”, thus continuing to make them the most obese poor in the history of the world.
Congress is close to approving another five-year farm bill that would cost the treasury about $300 billion. A good chunk of this funding – about $5.2 billion a year – will be in the form of “direct payment” subsidies to growers of corn and other crops, including some growers who are millionaires.
I’m surprised they don’t raise the subsidies in view of the fact that crude oil/natural gas is rising so high. After all their cost for fuel, fertilizer, insecticides, electricity, parts for their equipment, etc are rising at a rapid rate all caused by the price of oil/gas.
Partly?!
These are the best and brightest Bee brains who opined that we were partly to blame for 9/11 because we do not try to "understand" the rest of the world.
These same Bee brains praised and published MTBE advocates' literature to promote that abominable "Earth saving" chemical -- and at the same time the Bee brains denounced those of us who by the thousands protested MTBE at the state capitol building. We were stupid "dupes" of San Francisco radio station KSFO's self-promotion, said the Bee brains.
KSFO personnel were right and the feeeeeeeeel good liberals wound up trying to get us killed. Here they go again.
Agriculture used to be considered an industry critical for defense. We’ve gotten away from that, and I think that is unwise. A country that can’t feed itself, can’t feed an army during war.