[IbJensen]

View the farm bill as a microcosm of how the federal government operates. It takes the essence of what might have been a reasonable approach for a temporary, limited in scope program to meet a short-term need and blew it up into a massive, permanent bureaucracy whose intended goals have more to do with creating government dependency and ensuring votes at election time and doesn't assist any perceived public need. Is it any wonder that the federal government can take in over $2.5 trillion dollars annually and still manage to run annual deficits of $1 trillion dollars a year?

This is what happens when the federal government manages anything!

[2banana]

Or to put in more succinctly.

Government corrupts EVERYTHING it touches.

[GeronL]

Yes, the government doesn’t live in the real world it seems.

BTW, did anyone else see that show on the Chinese Cultural Revolution on the History Channel last night?

It was amazing. I saw parallels with today. Even with a little probable liberal bias those events were horrific.

I would compare the Red Guard with Occupy and other leftist groups. They said before the end of the Cultural Revolution these Red Guards had turned on each other, that a half million probably died in those battles.

[onyx]

For example, Senator Thad Cochran (R–MS), ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently told the North American Agricultural Journalists group that food stamps should continue to be included in the farm bill “purely from a political perspective. It helps get the farm bill passed.”

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FWIW, we despise him.

[nascarnation]

Excellent post.
The food stamp program is a perfect example of dispensing gravy to enough constituencies to make it nearly bulletproof in the Congress.

[jjotto]

In addition to the 80% of the ‘farm bill’ that has nothing to do with farms, the remaining 20% has 75% of that going to very large corporations.

[trebb]

What you daid. Plus, when the government gives aid for failed/ruined crops, it will not allow farmers to salvage what’s still good and then compensate them for what was lost. They’re so worried some farmers might lie that they insist on all or nothing so the good portions rot in the fields.

[Rusty0604]

I remember as a kid in elementary school learning the gov’t pays farmers not to grow anything and thinking how stupid that was. Plus I was told by my mom that there were kids starving so I had to eat all my food, so nothing made sense.

[narses]

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