[ConservativeMind]

He is sounding strangely conservative.

What did he drink?

[FreePaul]

I don’t recall Dimmy doing anything about this when he was supposed to be acting as president. Did he know there was a problem then or did he just discover it when Bush took office?

[mkjessup]

"I was a farm boy then"

And evolved into a 100 percent horse's ass.

STFU UP ALREADY JIMMAH!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Jimmah’s first job was a bureaucrat. How sweet.

[oldbill]

Missing from Jimmie’s liberal rant on dollar subsidies are the governmentally sanctioned subsidies for farm labor, namely, the allowance of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to these same farm conglomerates.

The money saved in wages, taxes collected, and benefits probably totals more than all the cash subsidies.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

He could’ve done something when he was President.

Hypocrite.

[SF Republican]

My first paying job was working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture - Ah, got a taste for the govt payroll and just couldn't ever do anything else.

[rellimpank]

—since I don’t sign in for the Bee, does Jimmah get into the peanut subsidy?

[a real Sheila]

Sounds like he is actually saying something I agree with.
I’ve never understood farm subsidies and getting paid NOT to grow something.

Anything with the words gov’t and subsidies in it has got to be bad.

[Liaison]

the AG subsidy is the Third Rail of politics for our nation of farmers and has a high probability of never seeing substantial reform.

[ChurtleDawg]

Farm subsidies are among the most wasteful excesses in the entire budget. I think we pay out like 200 billion a year aiding giant agribusiness, for no apparent reason.

[BfloGuy]

I just hate it when I agree with Jimmy Carter. Thankfully it only happens every 30 years or so.

[ari-freedom]

there are a few things where carter is conservative. For example he was for Civil Service Reform

[popdonnelly]

“My first paying job was working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture”

That figures, given Carter’s love of bureaucracy.

[PeterPrinciple]

It is important to think as well as read. The reality is that with the high prices of grains, there will be little or no subsidies to farmers. In fact all the local Govt offices and higher up usda bureaucrats are concerned because their power over farmers and reason to exist are in jeopardy.

Look for mission creep from the USDA!!!!!

[PeterPrinciple]

American producers of cotton received more than $18 billion in subsidies between 1999 and 2005, while market value of the cotton was $23 billion. That’s a subsidy of 86 percent!

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The following article is relevant and should be posted often to encourage us.:

http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2004&month=04

[Scythian]

He’s absolutely right on this one.

[Puddleglum]

My goodness - he’s right!!!

Farm Subsidies — one of the vote buyer’s best friends.

[Cyber Liberty]

My first paying job was working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, measuring farmers' fields to ensure that they limited their acreage and total production in order to qualify for the life-sustaining farm subsidy prices.

Of all the things he's ever written or said, I find this to be the easiest to believe.

[Tijeras_Slim]

He’d rather try Collectivization, after all it worked so well for his heroes.