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Farm Subsidies: Who GETS the MONEY?

How quickly we all forget.
MSNBC's news story on Farm Subsidies is chilling, but it's not new news. Somehow again, political slight of hand must have distracted those who knew and they didn't keep reminding all of us taxpayers, now did they. Just bear with me, and keep reading - it actually only gets worse:

The following story and link is just the tip of the iceberg.

Farm program pays people who don’t farm
Federal subsidies to owners of old, unused farmland top $1.3 billion

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13622029/


The Cash Croppers: Executive Summary

This report was released in September 1995

http://www.ewg.org/reports/Croppers/exec.html

Check Out The Top Two Percent of Farm Subsidy Recipients in Your State:

http://www.ewg.org/reports/Croppers/state_list.html

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Cash cow, sacred cow: Saxby Chambliss fights for farm subsidies
By: Tom Philpott
Gristmill
October 12, 2005

http://www.ewg.org/news/story.php?id=4511

Farm-state politicians, and the agribusiness giants that love them, speciously portray farm subsidies as a "safety net for the family farm." In reality, the program helps push commodity prices down -- and arguably helps drive farms out of business. In 1935, around the time the program started, there were 7 million farms in the U.S. By 1997, the USDA reports, only 1.7 million remained. Some safety net.

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Yes, what we have is an American Government that is drunk on tax dollars. Americans deserve a full public accounting of how our politicians are spending our tax dollars.