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  • From: Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The Real Beneficiaries of Subsidies
  • Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:30:23 -0500

The real winners in the subsidy explosion since the mid-'90s have clearly been the animal feedlot operators and the largest corporate mega-farms. Suppliers like Monsanto and big grain traders -- ADM, Bunge, Cargill, and Dreyfus -- benefitted handsomely as well. Small and mid-sized growers depend on subsidies to stay afloat, sometimes even in big years; meanwhile, big industrial growers thrive. Isn't there a better system?
To ask "Who benefits?", one must ask if the benefits are really benefits.
Cheap food creates cheap people. Cheap people are a bonus to every manufacturer, every war department, every wage-slave retailer, and every authoritative entity in this Class War.

The big lie is that there is a "middle" class. There are those who exist because they work, and those who exist because they don't. The latter have myriad schemes to make the former believe they can "advance" to some magical middle ground where they can live somehow without being slaves to the moneyed class.

That's the "Hope" which gets us to vote for a lizard.
"You have to vote for a lizard, or the WRONG lizard might get IN."

Dan C.
Belgium, WI

On 4/15/2012 11:01 AM, livingontheland-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
Subject: [Livingontheland] Overhauling the Farm Bill: The Real
Beneficiaries of Subsidies
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Overhauling the Farm Bill: The Real Beneficiaries of Subsidies

It's one thing to support a family farmer. It's another to subsidize a mega
farm expansion that puts family farmers out of business.




  • Re: [Livingontheland] The Real Beneficiaries of Subsidies, Dan Conine, 04/15/2012

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