Imagine being someone with Rush's giant, fertile brain, and being told that you should accept the agenda of the Idiot-American lobby. Patrick set off an avalanche of calls on the farm bill in which Rush pretended to play the Idiot-American. When David in Hopkinsville, Kentucky called to demand Rush, "get off President Bush's back about the farm bill" because "It's not welfare. It's farmers." Rush "agreed," thrilling Dave.
See how seductive liberalism can be? All you have to do is feel! You don't have to be consistent or stick to your morals. If it feels good to say farmers should get money from other taxpayers, you just say it should be so! Next up, Rush talked to John in Clayton, Indiana. Like so many callers lately, he had concocted an elaborate Bush strategery by which all this spending somehow, someday will lead to smaller government. Although he had no evidence of this happening, John was sure it would.
Advocating the Wel-farm bill required Rush to tie his entire brain behind his back instead of his usual half, so it wasn't long before he just couldn't take it anymore. History has proven that price controls and subsidies don't work, yet apparently we must listen to Idiot-Americans who don't care about facts. George W. Bush is president of them, too, so he has to listen to them - even though he's smarter and more educated than them, and even if he could bring them over to the right way of thinking in two seconds.
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I agree with that. This taxation scheme to do things for which taxation is not meant for, abusing its powers and jurisdictions, is plain toying with communist and socialist rationalisation fire. These people not only get taxpayers in a bind, but they get themselves in a bind if one day the government has to cut the spigot or encourages instead -directly or indirectly - people to buy foreign crops.
Last but not least, they get this welfare money with their very own farms as collateral in case they are suspected on not complying appropriately. At least with banks they can file for bankruptcy and hope to get something back from the farm. With the government they will get nothing back, except a law suit slapped at their face and even costly jail time in a jail cell instead of the farm they once had. Worse their stuff could fall under BLM schemes that "saves" farms for farmers from banks if the famers allow wildlife to run around.
I mean, for goodness sakes, this BLM and farm bill stuff is right out of the collectivization schemes in the former Soviet Union with law enforcement taking over people's lives and properties, sending entire families to jail and their children to CPS, simply because they decided to grow crops on property a day the nation was starving or prices of crops went up, making farming viable again. It really is shaping to create some really irrational and unworkable contracts, turning the nation either into a contract breaking culture or into a contract enforcing culture of horrifying proportions.