In 2012, the federal government paid some $5 billion in direct payments to farmers of wheat, corn, barley, oats, cotton, rice, soybeans, peanuts and other crops -- except the recipients cannot all be farmers. According to the Environmental Working Group, 116 of those tillers of the earth reside in San Francisco. For their farming activities, they pocketed $446,302.
How is it, you might ask, that a government saddled with $17 trillion in
debt can afford to send checks to more than 18,000 urban farmers? The group's
senior vice president for government affairs, Scott Faber, calls the direct
payments program "one of the most ridiculous" government programs in
recent history, as it pays "farm subsidies to farmers regardless of
whether they have suffered a loss or whether they even planted a crop.".........Inside the Beltway, there's only one rule: When it doubt, keep spending.
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