Originally Posted by samcol

From my understanding, the main reason we helping farmers is because of NAFTA and CAFTA type legislation. It's no longer a "free market" when other countries use slave labor and ship products back into our country to undercut the honest business people.

These free trade agreements are destroying our economy, as well as our national security when we can't even provide food for ourselves like Ustwo said. The subsidies aren't really attacking the root of the problem, although I do feel bad for the farmers.