"Get a job"? This sob should take a job on a farm. The direction he is headed in is to have all farms controlled by some corporation. Or, some four corporations.
Farming, as a business isn't pretty. I know one guy who broke his back doing it. There are plenty of lost fingers and hands. It isn't easy work to work the land.
"Get a job." What a statement! The guy obviously never bailed hay.
The government program pays off the big land holders, people like Sam Donaldson and Ted Turner to the tunes of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Meanwhile it barely keeps the small farm owner above subsistance.
"Get a job". Too many fat people.
I don't think there is anything wrong with having too much food. We export it in large quantities. The rest of the world, the 5.75 billion or so that don't reside here, survive on it.
Even so, it comes down to this: The reason that we have farm subsidies is that we, as a nation, must be able to produce our own food. We must be able to attain it, regardless of the cost, even in some catastrophic situation.
There is no reason to come down on the farmers like this man has. Almost all of them think they are "doing their jobs."
They might not be very informed, like a "city person" would be, but they face hazards and find ways to deal with them.
This guy, the one who wrote the diatribe above should go be a farmer for a week. Then he might have a better perspective.
I don't think anyone ever bailed hay
Sailors bail water
Farmers bale hay