Greg You can end the USDA tomorrow and the people hurt the worse would NOT be the farmers. I think your actually talking about the FSA office, that is who handles farm subsidies. I am 100% for getting rid of the FSA ( Farm Service Agency). The main goal of the farm programs are to maintain an abundant and economical food supply. That is as summation of the original "law" that created the USDA/FSA offices. Most of it was in reaction to the Great Depression.
Without the government involvement in farming we would be much more profitable on the production end. The government playing with the programs and such are NOT to make the farmers more money. It is to create an abundance of economical/CHEAP food for this country. The percentage of the average family's income required for food has steadily dropped for more than 75 years. So that part of the program is working.
The USDA not so much, in that the inspections of meat and other food processing is one of the "Good" things the government has done.
Most of us do not want to ruin the air, water, or land but we do object when people go over board on it. Much of the current EPA rules and guidelines are politically driven with little regard to the actual scientific evidence. One of the biggest boondoggles is the global warming issue. The "science" being touted as "evidence" of this happening has been gamed so much there is no way to know what is true or not. Then add in the "list" of scientist supposedly supporting being made up of a majority of people with little actual knowledge on the subject.
Just bring some common sense to the EPA and other Departments would be the best thing that could ever happen. The creation of the EPA helped to really limit pollution and created data to actually know what worked and did not work. Now it is too much "Feel good" stuff with little substance to it. That is dangerous. Crippling this country's industry with faulty ideas and science is what many of us are hot about.
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