(OT)
Peter,
Your ‘amusing’ story about How to Catch a Wild Pig is a interesting story, however, by the constant political slant of most members of this board and where they want to lay blame for all our political and economic woes, can be summed up with the ignorance of this very tidbit of history relating to all these government subsidies for farming entities feeding on the largesse of our tax dollars…
“The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP),
welfare, medicine, drugs, free medical, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms – just a little at a time.”
The creation of the Federal Farm Board was one Herbert Hoover, a Republican. And upon this board’s formation they decided on a zinger of a campaign slogan to give away our tax dollars and shove it down the taxpayer’s throat…….
Twas…….” Grow Less –Get More”
As for the efforts by Obama to do away with these subsidies……he sure had good luck! Have you ever looked at what states vote Republican and what states get the most in farm subsidies……….Texas is at the head of the trough.
nytimes.com
I offer this merely for a point of clarification……some times the truth hurts, and both parties are equal opportunity gores of the public -- (IMO) But I think the classic example is Michelle Bachman, the Republican Congresswoman from Minnesota. With all her bitching and moaning about government waste her family feeds off farm subsidies to not grow crops on their Minnesota farm land. But in fairness......she 'ain't' the only Washington politician to feed on our farm land payments......both Democrat and Republican. John Stennis of Miss. probably in his life time pulled in millions with all that Mississippi delta farm land. Here in Texas......ONE farm(Ochua-Brookeshire, Texas) gets over $9.3 million EACH year of our tax dollar. |
