Posted by UAFitter on March 19, 2018 at 11:46:11 from (174.198.19.209):
In Reply to: Re: Farm Problem posted by paul on March 19, 2018 at 10:37:30:
The problem is that we, the taxpayers, keep propping up a bad business model. Whether it's direct subsidy, emergency bailouts, or the latest and most egregious scam, crop insurance, the fact remains that US agriculture runs on a cocktail of oil and taxpayer money to produce an oversupply of cheap commodity grains. Farmers moan about those who they believe are taking advantage of the system, while at the same time being the most special of special interest groups themselves. They weep like orphans about not making money, but are the most rabid about maintaining any mechanism they can to insure that their wealth accrues over generations at taxpayer expense, since net farm income over time is almost exactly equal to the various forms of taxpayer support received by agriculture. Ethanol is a scam that's converting drinking water into automotive fuel, and one of these days, a bunch of thirsty people are gonna have something to say about that.
The problem is that we as a society have never had an honest conversation about our food, where it's coming from and how it's going to be produced. We've let the grifters get us to take our eye off the ball, and now the bill is coming due. "Fix the costs" you say, by reducing the steelworker's wages- sounds a whole lot like killing your neighbor's cow because you don't have one.
You don't like farming? Don't farm. You can't make money raising corn and beans? Don't raise corn and beans. You think your neighbor makes too much money working for wages? Get a job yourself.
Nobody makes you climb up on a cross to farm. Quit acting like it's the rest of the world's obligation to make it possible for you to farm.
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