Sounds like a good conservative.
Nevertheless, we were both enrolled.
Turned into a socialist by "free" money.
My father resisted the farm programs for as long as he could, but in the early 60's he was faced with bankruptcy or the programs.
Even though he was very successful at raising crops, cattle, and turkeys, by then the programs had put a ceiling on grain prices, and though those ceilings, the ceiling on the profits of cattle and turkeys were established.
He chose the programs over bankruptcy.
When I began, all I want to do was raise crops and animals. I was willing to humiliate myself by enrolling, as long as I could farm.
I suppose I should not have farmed, or quit. After all, here I am today saying that school teachers should quit their jobs rather than participate in the evil that our school systems have become.
If I were do it over, I would be raising organic. Growing up on the farm, I never imagined consumers would be so stupid as to pay those enormous prices for such crappy foods, but they do. I could raise that stuff>
I have a cousin that does. They don't need any farm program, and financially they're able to run new equipment, buy the neighbours land, and vacation every year. that's something very few farmers enrolled in the cheap food program are able to do.
The benefits of hindsight.