ALL THIS AUSTERITY IS KILLING THEM

Dead farmers might be reaping millions in subsidies

(Thanks to Peter Metrinko)

Comments

[PirateBoy]

Back when Jimmy Carter was president, the USDA literally dumped excess milk, and paid dairy farmers to reduce the size of their herds, since there was too much supply.

I remember a joke at the time...

Two farmers were sitting in a bar in Iowa, talking.

"Yeah, last year, the gov'mnt paid me $500,000 not to grow wheat. This year, they're payin' me $750,000 not to cattle farm. What do you think I ought'nt to grow next year?"

[ligirl]

make good compost, i s'pose

[Elon]

Agriculture subsidies are evil.

[Loudmouth]

You gotta pay them so they'll vote. Sometimes they even move into Chicago to vote.

[Desert Al]

And The Blog covered all of this agriculture stuff, plus yesterday's weirdness of Florida, so well in his "Hits Below The Beltway".

Yes, he wrote a book. Apparently, the wrong people were reading it.

[Meanie the Blue]

Awarded post-humusly?

[Micah]

Tomorrow's news:

In what seems to be an incredible coincidence, thousands of farmers around the the nation claim to have been visited by an angel named Clarence today and given a new outlook on life. One farmer said, "the words kept running through my head 'you're worth more dead than alive,' until Clarence showed me how much I still have to life for." The interview was stopped short as his long lost children ran to hug him and money and jugs of beer fell from the sky.

[Ms. Flukey]

They are reaping what they did not sow?

How does the grim reaper feel about this?

[Omniskeptic]

"Reaping" benefits! Haw! I get it! That's a purty funny headline. The fella who wrot that outghta write a book!

[MikeyVA]

And they voted in the last election as well.

[Steve]

Just change the term "agricultural subsidies" to "food stamps" and one of the big Parties will be all over this.

[FredKey]

Farm subsidies totalled $5,326,000,000 in 2012. With all that cash to give away, how can the government be expected to know every little detail?

[PirateBoy, the theatrical]

I think I saw Dead Farmers open for Korn a few years ago.

It is rumored that the band is back in the studio, writing music for the film adaptation of David Mamet's play Speed the Plow