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Yeah, that Ted Turner, Scotty Pippen, and Sam Donaldson sure do sweat for their subsidies, don't they? What kind of crap is this! You notice that this piece is written by a lobbyist for the corn growers association, the same lovable people who want to force ethanol on all of us.

Most of this money goes to big agribusinesses, and the proof of that is that our weasel politicians couldn't even put a cap on the maximaum payments. It would be better for the taxpayers and the farmers to pay some of them to just get out of the business altogether. As long as the government is involved in screwing up the market, things will only get worse for all of us.

Yes, there are certainly down sides to our farm policies. There would be down sides if the government got completely out of it as well. Some of those down sides could likely be far worse than the current downsides. I've heard credible arguements on both sides. I come down on the side of farm subsidies for now.

The article was written by an advocate for farmers. I don't see a problem with that. On this forum there are very few representatives of farmer's points of view. It seems only reasonable that an advocate speak for them.

There will be many who speak out against farm subsidies.