Big words from people who can’t grow their own food. Obesity will not be a problem in the future.
Are you saying that if the American farmers are prevented from stealing from the taxpayers that people will starve?
Leech.
Hardly anybody can grow his own food any more. Get rid of the damm subsidies.
Oh, so subsidies are just fine if you agree with them?
Almost every landholder within 1,000 miles of me is being paid to do nothing. “CRP” - it HAS to STOP!
EL CAMPO, Tex. — Even though Donald R. Matthews put his sprawling new residence in the heart of rice country, he is no farmer. He is a 67-year-old asphalt contractor who wanted to build a dream house for his wife of 40 years.
Yet under a federal agriculture program approved by Congress, his 18-acre suburban lot receives about $1,300 in annual “direct payments,” because years ago the land was used to grow rice.
Matthews is not alone. Nationwide, the federal government has paid at least $1.3 billion in subsidies for rice and other crops since 2000 to individuals who do no farming at all, according to an analysis of government records by The Washington Post.
Some of them collect hundreds of thousands of dollars without planting a seed. Mary Anna Hudson, 87, from the River Oaks neighborhood in Houston, has received $191,000 over the past decade. For Houston surgeon Jimmy Frank Howell, the total was $490,709.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/01/AR2006070100962.html