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LRR, Please listen to a true story. In the late 50s or early 60s, the subject of subsidies to wheat farmers was brought up and, my uncle being such a farmer, told me that he was against them and all of his neighbors felt the same way. They did not want the federal government to stick it's nose into their business, and were willing to sink or swim with the supply and demand situation, if that was what it took to remain independent. Straw votes were taken throughout Kansas, and as far as I know, other wheat producing states. All was to no avail. The government, in reality, forced subsidies down their throats. This led to the "family" wheat farmer getting in financial trouble, who then sold his farm to big agricultural conglomerates, who made more money from the subsidies than they could ever have hoped for by harvesting wheat. ~H~ |
