Yeah right they need government subsidies because if they don't have it, they'll ruin their own business.
How unique and singular.

>I recognize his point but dismissed it because he has no idea how it works. It's not like a bonus given out to farmers so they don't have to work. These subsidies exist to help manipulate the market, the encourage conservation and wetlands restoration, to give over-worked and exhausted farmland time to restore, and to aid small dwindling rural communities and schools. Very few people can see past the John Stossel type 20/20 reporting that try to portray farmers as lazy uneducated thieves.
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>>Actually I think Victor brought up an interesting point there. Some farmers are indeed paid subsidies by the government (i.e. us) to not grow crops. And that money doesn't all go to small family farms, either.
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>>>You seem to have no inside knowledge of anything concerning US agriculture, so I'm not going to debate it with you.
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>>>>No one is critizicing US per se. Only the vast amount of power your farmers have there.....commo'n, do you really like that they get paid tax dollars for NOT producing something?
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>>>>>Yeah, but the US is an easy target of criticism.
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>>>>>>I'd say that the U.S. is doing more than its share supporting products made in Peru (as one example):
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>>>>>>http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/product/enduse/imports/c3330.html
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>>>>>>That is hardly closing the economy to cheaper foreign goods.
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>>>>>>>If you think that the best think for the american people is that your government closes their economy to cheaper foreign goods , you are in good company along with Castro and Chavez......hey, why not every country closes their borders to any foreign good and tries to be self supplied for any good produced inside their borders? Sure that would make this global economy work better :)