Posted by jackinok on November 08, 2012 at 10:30:34 from (162.58.82.136):
In Reply to: Re: Farm subsidies posted by paul on November 08, 2012 at 08:25:29:
I stand corrected, BUT heres the thing,the fact that gov did buy surplus grain proves the effeciency of the subsidy program. Its not a program intended to somehow make farmers rich,its a program to keep farmers productive. If prices were allowed to stay low for crops,many farmers would have been out of buisness. Its simply a program that keeps farmers on the job and helps to guarantee a nations food supply. Many folks here believe the bible teachings. In the book of revelations it has a scenario where folks are hollering "a measure of wheat for a penny",does that sound like a place where theres a overabundance of crops have been raised with no price supports? Shorly thereafter 1/3 the worlds population dies from starvation. Does that sound like a place where theres not enough farmers to feed the population? The US has been blessed with the fact that its always so far been able to feed itself. It does it today with less than 2% of the population farming, how many of those could we afford to lose? china has 1 in 6 as full time farmers and are still facing food problems. Today ,at this time,do we really need the farm subsidy program? maybe not,prices are high and farmers are making a fair amount of money. But you dont need car insurance either most of the time. What if we lost even 10-20% of the farmers,theres less and less each year,and the fewer we get the more important those few become to a nations security and stability. Thats the concept of farm subsidies,its simply insurance.
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