LORENLSMITH, this statement is 100% correct and if America keeps following the same trade procedures; China will own the US, they own more of this country now than most people realize.

I have been a farmer for over 40 years, you need farm subsudies, but they should only be paid to active farmers not land owners. The active farmer actually spends their personal money for input cost, overhead and performs the labor of growing field and meat crops. Commodity prices are at the highest level ever recorded for the 2008 crop year.

I am stating facts from real life experiences farming, not the opinion of a misguided person making statements on things they have no idea of other than what the media can brain wash them into thinking.

When you go out work yourself to death and spend hundreds of dollars per acre of your personal money so people in this country will have food to eat you will have an honest opinion of what is actually taking place with the American farmer. The American farmer will do everything possible to make his business of feeding people work, he only has so much control, the rest is up to God.

Fact:

The American farmer is not making a profit from farm subsidies, it is only letting him putting food on your table when otherwise he may not be able to. Property owners receiving farm subsidies are generating profit and should not be entitled to any farm program payments.

I pay extremely high insurance premiums, this is my choice; the same as it is your choice for health insurance. I select a higher plan of coverage for the reason of input cost going up dramatically (look at your fuel bill) for everything involved. Someone made the statement, farmers had rather lose a crop so they can reap the benefits of program payments and insurance payments. This is as far from the truth as anything you will ever read or hear. When farmers plant a crop it is like watching a baby grow from embryo stage to an adult, it hurts him to see it suffer.

Is this why some Americans work 2 and 3 jobs and still can't get ahead?

Everyone seems to be missing the REAL PROBLEM , WE CAN'T CHANGE ANYTHING BECAUSE WE HAVE NO POWER . ( The Vote )

What good does it do ,our vote doesn't REALLY count , as it is the Electorial College that really decides our President .

Once there they do and vote as they want .

WITH THE INTERNET ; IT IS POSSIBLE TO CONTACT ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS.

The site I use alot is   www.congress.org/.../home   ...........

there you can acess any elected offical  State or Federal ! ! ! ! !

Maybe if enough  will contact ,instead of just using blogs, moderated websites and so forth, to whine

then WE MIGHT MAKE A DIFFERENCE ! ! ! ! !  

Solution:  If we gave half the trade import business to Mexico that we give to China....the Mexicans would be building the fences.