Here’s a good little video short on the audacity of farm subsidies. What are they? Why do we still have them? Why can’t we get rid of these things? They cost taxpayers Billion$, distort the market, help producers (land owners) who don’t really need help, and have out-lived their usefulness by several decades.
The site also [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 27, 2009
Perverted, and not sexy: farm subsidies
January 6, 2009
Food shortages in 2009?
My brother sent this and asked if there was anything to it. Is the prospect of food shortages in the US real enough and will they be serious enough that people should start to presserve and store large amounts of food? After gazing in my crystal ball for some time I finally realized there was [...]
