Food, agriculture, and government

[Aquapod770]

(10-29-2015, 11:02 AM)fredtoast Wrote: My understanding of government farm subsidies was that they originally were put in place to protect farmers from times when the weather would destroy their crops.  That sounds like a good thing for the government to do.  But know it is mostly just writing a bunch of huge checks to large corporations.

While I agree that giving huge checks out to big corporations is a problem, there are still a lot of "small farms" all across america.  Some of these people could lose their entire income if mother nature decides to not rain for a week.