Well,I told you the truth and when people begin to go hungry or pay the prices that Europeans pay for food some of the posters here will wake up. Farmers have never been ‘Welfare Queens’ that is just nonsense, and yes, representatives from rural areas do pander to farmers. Farming is one of the hardest physical jobs there are, and they gamble on whether the weather will be favorable or if their labor will be in vain if the crops fail. Food is a national security issue. Just try to run an army without it. Some Republican bias here [and I am a Republican] makes for stupidity. Bias, and calling everything ‘socialist’ one does not agree with is part of what is wrong with the party. Try a little independent thinking. Starving is a hard way to learn anything.
I grew up in the country so I actually do KNOW what I am talking about. Big and medium farms are some of the biggest government whores in the country. To deny reality doesn’t mean it stops being true.
Now the smaller family farms is a different story. Almost none of them get any kind of government dollars.
If what Europeans pay for the price of food were the cost of the food, that is what we should pay.