Christian Science Monitor
"Subsidies are going to large, wealthy farms and distorting global markets. Congress can change that.
Every five years, Congress must reconsider billions of dollars in farm subsidies. This is one of those years. Perhaps this time, though, it will realize that what began as a New Deal program has since become an old deal that needs an overhaul.
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donkey adds....
I would recommend reading P.J. O'Rourke's book "Parliament Of Whores" and specifically the revealing yet humorous chapter on the socialist sham which is farm subsidies. Its around twenty years old but I have recently just re-read it and although some of the names faces and dollar amounts have changed the message still holds true today..... fuck the government and fuck the farmers.
On another note, it reminds me of the classic Irish Rovers song, "Goodbye Mrs Durkin" and it seems to me that Barney had it all wrong. He should have stuck to farming.
"So, it's goodbye Mrs. Durkin, I'm sick and tired of workin'.
No more I'll dig your praties, no longer I'll be poor.
As sure as my name is Barney, I'm off to Califarny.
Instead of digging praties, I'll be digging lumps of gold"
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We must return to the hunter gatherer lifestyle for the health of the planet and our people!
One could make the argument that we still are hunter/gatherers, so to speak. The hunters representing the producers of the world, and the gatherers being the governments that take from them to give to the non hunters.
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