Bush Economics: Big Government Cowards

Mr. Bush's half-assed attempt to slow subsidies to massive agri-business farms has been abandoned. No ass left at all.

Cowards. Where is the rationale? The largest 10% of farms (those owned by PROFITABLE businesses) get 80% of the subsidies!

When will these "conservatives" start acting like it? Yes, perhaps some social conservatives REALLY want gay people to be wedged in a corner, unhappy and alone. Somehow it's their business... I don't know. How about these same passionate believers read a freakin' economics text book and find out what real conservatives are about: SMALL government (how about the irony of the all caps, eh? Clever, eh?), less government paternalism and spending, and most of all, FISCAL DISCIPLINE!

We're spending $52 BILLION on farm aid, 80% of it to profitable farms. We're facing a serious debt load. Far lower as a percentage of GDP than Democrats would have you believe, but a serious and unproductive debt nonetheless. Just as an aside, this is not like your personal economics, as so many Congresspeople would have you believe, debt can be a good thing in terms of investment, but more on that another day... our current debt is not productive. Do you know how much of our debt we could pay off with $42.6 BILLION (the 80% of the $52 billion we give to huge farms)? That's right, we could pay off $42.6 BILLION.

The math is not so hard, but the contortions that farm state Republicans go through in order to pretned that this is a conservative move is freakin hard. This is the kind of thing that could turn me into a Democrat. Thank goodness the Democrats are always there to remind me why I would never do that...

BTW, sorry for all the caps in this episode. I get unusually excited when talking about farms. ahem.