Useful for what?
For making weed to legalize which stones out the sheeple which adds to the takers which adds the tax burden which adds to the unemployment and welfare roles which adds to the liberal nonsense that adds to the world of Obama that we all love and enjoy?
Kinky, I used to like you, but now that your are supporting the baby killer, you’re dead to me.
Hemp farming was encouraged by the government during WWII.
You might do some research before you knee-jerk.
/johnny
What to Cut? ‘Non-essential’ federal workforce suggests gov’t has plenty of fat to trim
By Doug McKelway
Published October 24, 2013
FoxNews.co
The Department of Agriculture is fairly typical of most agencies in its sometimes incongruous responsibilities and huge — some say too huge — workforce. It employs roughly 99,000 people to service the roughly 1.4 million Americans employed in farming.
Schatz illustrates that close ratio of federal worker to farmer with a bit of dark humor. “There’s an old joke — an agriculture employee walks into a colleagues office and says, ‘What’s the matter?’ He says, ‘I’m really upset, my farmer died.’”
“It’s not quite a one-to-one ratio of employees at the Agriculture Department to farmers,” said Schatz. “But it is still a much larger operation than it needs to be.”
Under the umbrella of the Agriculture Department lies the Forest Service, school nutrition programs, food stamp programs, animal and plant inspection, meat and poultry inspection, the rural development office, and many other services — many of which, critics say, could easily be privatized.
There’s also an array of outdated subsidy and price support programs for dairy, sugar and ethanol that intentionally raise the price of any number of foods you buy at the grocery.
Ethanol, in particular, diverts tremendous quantities of corn that would otherwise be used for food, for use as fuel. Additionally, an increasing body of evidence suggests that ethanol is less efficient and more polluting than what it replaced. “Ethanol affects a very small group of companies that have a very powerful impact on Congress, similar to the dairy program... a small group of companies and co-ops that have a disproportionate impact on how agriculture policy is formed,” said Schatz.