| The reason that we pay subsidies is because we have so much production, in reference to Soylentgreen's remark, the United States has a huge production of food, driving prices down. The subsidies to farmers came along with Social Security during the FDR administration. Coming from a person who has worked some on farms, if they didn't get aid from the government, they would have a very dismal living, with no money to change it. As much as I as a republican don't believe in too much gov. aid, this is necessary to keep some people with jobs, and probobly the most important ones we have...growing food! |