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President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for an end to "direct payments to large agribusinesses that don't need them," an apparent attack on subsidies costing $5.2 billion a year (Our tax dollars)
I'm all for big agribusiness NOT getting subsidies. They don't need subsidies.
Most of the subsidy money goes to big agribusiness, food processors and multi-nationals to subsidize the commodity market prices. Very little goes to small to medium farms.
I hope smaller farmers get the subsidies - they are the ones living season to season with not much to tide them over.
President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for an end to "direct payments to large agribusinesses that don't need them," an apparent attack on subsidies costing $5.2 billion a year (Our tax dollars)
Of course.....Obama needs that money to send to his South Chicago welfare moms who don't work and just have babies to milk the system. Hard providing for 10 chilins!!
If you opposed the so-called bank or auto bailouts, you haven't really left yourself much room to be supporting continued subsidies to big agribusiness...
Of course.....Obama needs that money to send to his South Chicago welfare moms who don't work and just have babies to milk the system. Hard providing for 10 chilins!!
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I have ALWAYS been 100% against farm susidies....I'm VERY well aware of how this works and have seen NOTHING but abuse of this system for years...end it ALL now is my vote.
I'm all for big agribusiness NOT getting subsidies. They don't need subsidies.
Most of the subsidy money goes to big agribusiness, food processors and multi-nationals to subsidize the commodity market prices. Very little goes to small to medium farms.
I hope smaller farmers get the subsidies - they are the ones living season to season with not much to tide them over.
I agree. Here in Maine there is mostly small farms, many dying out due to lots of reasons, not the least being big subsidies that fund big agribusiness practices like the massive use of chemicals and even bigger equipment. I've heard many stories of "homesteading" celebrities and lobbyists with large tracts of lands using farm subsidies to cut their tax burden.
Give the money to the farmer that is feeding American families locally instead of manufacturing processed foodstuffs for an overseas impulse market.
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