I remember as a kid in elementary school learning the gov’t pays farmers not to grow anything and thinking how stupid that was. Plus I was told by my mom that there were kids starving so I had to eat all my food, so nothing made sense.
“I remember as a kid in elementary school learning the gov’t pays farmers not to grow anything and thinking how stupid that was. Plus I was told by my mom that there were kids starving so I had to eat all my food, so nothing made sense.”
I think the “paying farmers not to grow” involved crop rotation/leaving fields fallow on a regular basis; the failure to do so contributed to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s (soil was farmed annually until depleted/without time to recover). I was also told to clean off my plate because kids were starving in Red China; I guess now I can tell my children to eat their healthy dinners because we have poor children with diabetes here in the US (we have the fattest poor people in the world).
I remember asking why we paid them not to grow food - if they grew more, and prices came down, more people could afford food and not have money taken from them to give food to others.
Logic, of course, does not apply when the objective is to have strings to control others.
I remember when the evil Roosevelt’s regime bought up enormous supplies of potatoes and had them doused with kerosene and burned. This was in order to keep the price of potatoes up.
He, being a fan of Joseph Stalin, probably thought this more humane than starving the entire state of Idaho to death.
This is the same government, maintaining the same socialist programs...even creating scores more.