What a bunch of fools we are

I need to stop reading the news.  The stuff that's going on out there just chaps my hide.  It now seems that our Federal Gubment is going to end its $5 BILLION dollar annual subsidy to the agriculture industry as part of the effort to cut the budget deficit.  The farmers generally aren't complaining since their industry is doing VERY well.  In fact, the average farm family will make over $80,000 this year, while the average large farm family income will be over $200,000.  I have no problem with them making that much money since they work very hard for every dime of it.  They deserve it.


But here's the smoke and mirrors part that really chaps me:  Congress (who benefits in a huge way from "campaign contributions"....bribes....from BIG agribusiness) is going to turn right around and begin a new agriculture subsidy in roughly the same amount as they eliminated, and send the bulk of that to the large landholding farms.  In other words, the rich get richer, and the taxpayers get fleeced again!  And they wonder why there's rebellion in the streets.  *shaking head*


So this upcoming election year when your congressman is trying to tell you how well he is managing your tax money by eliminating waste in government, and cites cutting the agriculture subsidy as an example, don't believe a word he's saying.  To him/her it's all just a big shell game and they're counting on us being too stupid to see it.  If we send the same bunch of crooks back to Washington we have right now, they'll be right!


S