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Originally Posted by flyover  Man I don't like it and you are absolutely right about the farm subsidies. Farmers are the biggest welfare recipients there are and it hasn't been good for US farming. |
My grandparents were farmers and lived in poverty from the day they were born to the day they died. They owned several hundred acres (not a lot, I know) and grew primarily corn and soybeans.
Farmers are some of the most hard working people on this planet. The (little) money they received went right back into their farm and community, vs. the money that crackheads get for unemployment and welfare buying drugs and alcohol.
Like tony said, it's the big time farms that are the big scams, not the small time farmers.