The Expansionist

Monday, August 29, 2005

Treasonous Farmers. The public opinion survey on iWon.com today says:

Earlier this month, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman secured a deal for his state to export $17 million in agricultural goods to communist Cuba, starting with the first U.S. shipment of great northern beans to the island since Fidel Castro came to power in 1959. A decades-old U.S. embargo severely limits travel and trade with Cuba, but an exception created in 2000 allows food and agricultural products to be sold on a cash-only basis. (AP)

So, farmers are eager to sell us out to bolster Cuba's Communist regime, are they? I am so tired of farmers misusing the rest of us. They are the only category of worker that is paid to do jobs they can't do profitably on their own. Would-be writers, actors, artists, and others who would prefer to work at something they can't make a living at don't get government subsidies so they can do what they want rather than what they can support themselves in. Why are farmers specially indulged?
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If you can't make a living at farming, do something else, and let people who can make money in agriculture do so, without stealing from the pocket of the American taxpayer. Why should low-paid Americans who live in bad urban neighborhoods have to ship off money to Nebraska, especially now that we see that Nebraskan farmers are active traitors?
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Fidel Castro is a major enemy of the United States, but shoring up his regime doesn't trouble Nebraska's farmer-thieves, who already steal from urban taxpayers. It's time to cut off all subsidies to farmers and hold them to the same standards of loyalty as everyone else. Would Nebraska's farmers have sent food to Nazi Germany? Probably so, had it not been outlawed. Fidel Castro is no more a friend of the United States today than was Adolf Hitler in the 1940s or Usama bin Laden today. Anyone who would trade with Castro, Hitler, or bin Laden is a contemptible traitor, and should be treated as such.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 1,877.)

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 2:12 PM

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