Don’t have the slightest Idea on what your commenting on Foraker. Fact is, I more than welcome any comment you may offer on any subject. One can assume this floundering foray of commentary you present has something to do with “AGRIBUSINESS” and not “IRAQ”, Correct?
In that sprit I will attempt a reply.
Well wouldn’t that make sense? The more Acreage you farm, the more Acreage you qualify for the plan, the more percentage of products you produce, and the bigger the risk for disaster. Why should Farming be like Welfare, the less you produce in society the more you get. That sounds like another liberal conceptual agenda, at that rate we will all starve.
You may say agricultural subsidies are Farm welfare, No more so than HUD, Food Stamps, ADC, The Big Dig, urban Improvement or any other Government Financial Influx.
Agricultural Subsidies given to farmers, (which by the way, generate more in tax revenue than they cost) helps build the internal food production inter-structure necessary to provide the abundance that we as Americans enjoy and that so many others in the world can only dream of.
Many small and large Farmers rely on the Subsidies to exist during the hard times. Kill Goose that lays the golden egg, and I can promises you big corporate farming will fleece your pockets like an Arab Oil Barren.