Sueee! pig pig pig! Sueee! – Big Ag brings home the bacon…
…courtesy of the Repugnican Party.
See what happens to wrong-wing rhetoric when the nutters come to power? All talk of free trade and free markets comes to an end – they’re too busy dishing out pork! Earlier on, I pointed out how Dubya uses subsidies as a tool to reward his backers – check out this article that belies all the crap the GOP blathered about ‘the family farmer’ and ‘food security’ – 71% of the subsidies of the ‘Food Security Bill’ went to a few big corporate farmers!
Even more helpful is a handy guide put out by the Environmental Working Group that breaks down the subsidies by recipient, by crop and by state.