“Too many : overlapping government agencies.”
Yes, and each one of them is, in reality, just another jobs program for the otherwise unemployable. Just think, the USDA has more people in its employ than there are farmers today, and their main mission is food distribution welfare. Eisenhower was right when he said: “It’s hard to be a farmer when your plow is a pencil and you are 1,000 miles from the corn field!” ( or something closely akin to that)
Reporter Sam Donaldson was the third-largest recipient of wool and mohair payments in Lincoln County, N.M.
Over two years, $97,000 in subsidy checks have gone to Donaldson’s address in the Virginia suburbs of Washington... Donaldson also got $3,500 to defray livestock-watering costs.
“Now there are plenty of other examples of absentee landlords receiving these farm subsidies, but it is particularly glaring that millionaire Sam Donaldson is getting this taxpayers’ money,” said D’Amato. “Sam Donaldson, give that money back.”