"Paying farmers to NOT plant crops"....norplant instead of welfare...

[LoveMyXds]

Again, just too complicated.  we will now need a task force to cross check welfare recipients against every cable provider and ISP in the country.

Just eliminate the the give away and no worries anymore.

Its just a simple database... the FCC already has its thumb on the cable industry.... The foodstamp thing would be easy too....

My point is to make the lazy bums get off their fat asses.... TV, beer and Doritos are hard for me to afford, they shouldn't get this handed to them...

[atmiller]

Keep in mind that the "WalMart effect" has happened in the farming community as well.  Just as WalMart ran small shops out of business, large "corporate" farms ran the small farms out of business.  There are a few small farms still around, but the farmers have regular jobs too.  Small farms just can't make enough to support themselves anymore.  

My step-dad works for one of these large farmers who farms 1,000s of acres of farmland.  One year there was a flood so they got money from the government for the crop damage.  Got over $1,000,000 for crops that were eaten by the local deer herd.