"CW" wrote in message
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Something that no one in this thread has considered. The real reason the
government supports farming is war. If farmers are allowed to go out of
business and we start importing all our food, in time of war we're
screwed.
Cut off the supply routes and people starve.


Are you saying farmers in the US are so helpless they would go out of
business without government support?

One form of government support pays farmers not to grow crops. What is the
wartime value of that?

Which potential enemy could engage us in a war so protracted as to risk
American starvation? And wouldn't such a war turn nuclear long before
starvation was a risk?

Isn't manufacturing at least as important to our war fighting capability as
farming?

Frank Dresser