perhaps Ken a TRUE understanding of subsidies and not what you hear from a liberal media may make a difference...
Jess I quit listening to any media years ago, liberal or otherwise. And I know about subsidies and how they work. I was raised on a starve to death farm here in Oregon where my dad had to work construction to support his farming habit. It killed him at 45. I moved back here after 46 years and live in that same town now.
The federal goverment pays over 20 Billion a year in direct farm income stabilization, much of it into the worthless Ethanol program until recently. Only about 2% of the current US population are still on, "family Farms" The vast majority are run by the mega corporate farms. Also tobacco why in the hell are we still putting close to 2 billion dollars a year in that? One of the leading causes of cancer and heart attacks and we are still subsiding it???? Tell my how the hell that makes any sense?