Posted by JICase on February 09, 2009 at 12:37:45 from (74.221.165.32):
In Reply to: O/T Farm Subsidies posted by jhilyer on February 09, 2009 at 10:43:45:
The government of any nation will keep law and order ONLY with cheap food. We have the cheapest, safest food supply in the world and the government (we the people) want to keep it that way. To do accomplish this, the government wants the farmer to take care of his land and to produce the crops that are beneficial to the nation. Many of us did not live during the dirty thirties and the conservation movement to follow, but this is where it all started. Nobody holds a gun to your head and says you have to take the payments, but if you want them, you have to jump through all the government hoops. For example, you can no longer drain a pot hole or dig a stock pond or dike a waterway or bury tile without getting an OK from five different government employees. The government has their hand in all we do on the land, and worst of all they meddle in our grain markets constantly. In the past, they have even embargoed our grain, our livelihood, for political reasons. As of late they are jerking around policies on the ethanol industry which most farmers have invested in directly or indirectly after promises of a bright future as an energy industry we could benefit from at every hometown mainstreet level. I say the farm payments are almost always a trade off for letting the government tell us what we can and can't do. As soon as they get out of farming then I'll refuse the payment. But for now, I'll not only take the payment but I deserve the payment in trade for all they do to keep us under their thumb. It's not free money, we give up many freedoms in trade and it's owed to us as payment. We can only be glad its done by baiting us with this carrot on a stick for now until the US actually becomes the Socialist or Communist country the lazy parasites of this country want us to be.
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