I know very little to nothing on how the farm subsidy payments really work. All I can go on is what I read/hear in the news and some contacts with friends.
Talking about food stamps and farm subsidies in the same conversation is wrong and just trying to cover up facts. Just because they are both in the farm bill does not make them two different dogs in the hunt.
Lots of people get welfare. We call it by different names but it is still welfare. One of my kids gets earned income credit on their taxes. Katrina blew some shingles off my roof as they were weak and would have needed replacing in two or three years anyway. FEMA gave me a check to replace my storm damaged roof anyway. Many people that live in nice city neighborhoods in $500,000 houses and drive Mercedes cars got hundreds of dollars in food stamps to replace all their food because the electricity was off for 48 hours after a different storm. While people know this is a form of welfare; and really do not need the money; they figure it is their piece of the pie. Your willing to give it to me; so I'm willing to take it.
But when you see a developer buy 200 acres of rice land; divide it into 10 acre tracks of horse owner lots; and then advertise to the potential buyers they could get the direct payments for the once rice land; and read that they are getting the payments even though they are no more a rice farmer than you are; just leaves a bad taste in your mouth. The payments "MAY" have ended by now with the new farm bill but that does not make the news so we never hear about that.
Our government is one big money grubbing factory that they use to buy votes with handouts. You ought to hear some of the things they are fighting over on ways to spend the BP fines. Fine them and fine them hard. We need the money for bigger vote buying pork.
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