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

A lot of them would.

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

Same thing. Think about it.

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?

China, Russia, the rest of the world if we're not careful. If nukes were
used at all, it would be in limited fashion. It is survivable. Forget the
propaganda.

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

Food is more immediate than manufacturing. You have a bit of time before
manufactured resources run low. A lot longer than it would take for people
to starve. Manufacturing is quite important though. Present policy toward
that simply shows that short sighted greed is becoming the norm.

Frank Dresser