http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/01/AR2006070100962.html?sub=AR
Farm Program Pays $1.3 Billion to People Who Don’t Farm
By Dan Morgan, Gilbert M. Gaul and Sarah Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 2, 2006; Page A01
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EL CAMPO, Tex. — Even though Donald R. Matthews put his sprawling new residence in the heart of rice country, he is no farmer. He is a 67-year-old asphalt contractor who wanted to build a dream house for his wife of 40 years.
Yet under a federal agriculture program approved by Congress, his 18-acre suburban lot receives about $1,300 in annual “direct payments,” because years ago the land was used to grow rice.
Matthews is not alone. Nationwide, the federal government has paid at least $1.3 billion in subsidies for rice and other crops since 2000 to individuals who do no farming at all, according to an analysis of government records by The Washington Post.
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Yup, have to steal more money from honest taxpayers to pay welfare to “farmers” wink wink!
Here’s a novel suggestion. Abolish the Department of Agriculture. End all welfare by the Gubamint! Individual, Corporate , State, and Foreign Welfare.
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