It’s not free. The $3 billion is spent with the farmers and the shippers and the distributors rather than being sent as a lump sum of cold, hard cash that tends to corrupt anyone who has contact with it.
Right now, not only is the $3 billion sent out of the country to work its black magic but the food is bought from foreign interests, it’s shipped on foreign flagged ships and it’s distributed to the extent any of it makes it that far, by foreigners.
Until we get in the habit of keeping and spending our money here in the good old US of A nothing will change.
What the farmer meant to say was how could he sell his grain for money when they are giving it away down the street.