[Nervous Tick]

The ag budget is something like 80-90% food stamps

about 80%, per this WaPo breakdown.

I wonder how much of the $100 billion that isn't food stamps is really necessary. And don't get me started about those @#$%^&* ethanol mandates.

Corporate welfare and farm welfare are still welfare, Eagle. We can't afford it.

[Balding_Eagle]

I wonder how much of the $100 billion that isn't food stamps is really necessary.

Probably none. All the programs do is even out prices at a lower level for the farmers.

You do get lower prices at the store as a result of the programs. But, of course, that's more than made up for (overall) by higher taxes.

I'll bet that the large majority of American farmers would jump at the chance to get out from under the thuggish thumb of the Government. The character of who they are hasn't changed that much since I left in 1986.

Start with getting the EPA out. And OSHA